From: suzeeq@imbris.com   
      
   On 1/1/2026 9:44 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   > On 12/31/2025 4:22 PM, suzeeq wrote:   
   >> On 12/31/2025 4:11 PM, 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?   
   >>   
   >> Or like leaves a dollar.   
   >>   
   > He expects others to tip him.     
   >   
   Especially when he gives them pardons.   
      
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