From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 12/31/2025 7:32 PM, Capricorne wrote:   
   >> On Dec 31, 2025 at 4:11:12 PM PST, "Capricorne"    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>  On Dec 31, 2025 at 11:57:44 AM PST, "shawn"   
   >>>>   wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>  On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:13:22 -0700, anim8rfsk    
   >>>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>  Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   In article <10ip638$3kkbb$2@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   More and more restaurants around here are automatically adding   
   >>>>>>>> tips to    the bill-- even for parties of just one or two-- as a   
   >>>>>>>> mandatory charge.    They don't call them tips, since legally   
   >>>>>>>> tips have to be voluntary. They    label them things like "staff   
   >>>>>>>> health care fee" and "worker compensation    fee" and "living   
   >>>>>>>> wage fee".   
   >>>>>>>>   And of course even after they charge you one of those bullshit   
   >>>>>>>> mandatory    fees, they still add the tip line at the bottom for   
   >>>>>>>> you to pay them even    *more* money. Whenever I see one of   
   >>>>>>>> these exciting new fees on the bill,    I just draw a line with   
   >>>>>>>> an arrow from the tip line up to the fee, circle    it, and   
   >>>>>>>> write, "That's your tip."   
   >>>>>>>   That reminds me; What's the deal with my FB feed containing   
   >>>>>>> several   
   >>>>>>>  postings   lecturing me to tip 40% and postings (suspiciously   
   >>>>>>> AI-generated) of  people's  restaurant bills with comments   
   >>>>>>> written about the tip? I saw one   in which the   waiter   
   >>>>>>> presumably wrote on a bill with no tip that they were calling   
   >>>>>>> the    cops.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>  LOL. If a waiter ever wrote such a thing I would definitely not tip.   
   >>>>>  Even if I loved their service. Just to see if they were foolish   
   >>>>> enough   
   >>>>>  to call the cops out for my deciding not to offer an optional   
   >>>>>  gratuity.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  This.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  I would *so* call their bluff.   
   >>>   
   >>> I wonder if Trump tips. Funny, just thinking about it we seem to know   
   >>> the answer, no?   
   >>   
   >> When we first picked up Trump as a protectee during the 2016 campaign, he   
   >> would routinely hand out $100 bills to all the staff and crew working   
   >> his golf rounds. He even tried to hand them to us on his detail but we   
   >> had to   
   >> (reluctantly) tell him that as government employees we weren't allowed   
   >> to take tips.   
   >>   
   >> Those are facts, as opposed to your baseless speculation.   
   >   
   > Of course, of course...   
      
   I believe it ...but also that Trump considers it a wise investment.   
      
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