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Ninjaslayer said:
Probably cheap a** college students is the result huh....... :grin:
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It was a college town, but that didn't seem to have TOO much of an effect on how people tipped. I wouln't get the huge $4+ tips from college kids too often, but otherwise, their tipping pretty much fell right in with the non-collge folks.
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homeless_cq said:
Care to share your findings....?
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Not really. You can pretty much guess the "results" though. Standard stereptypes apply.
Needless to say, it was very confusing at the time, and still is today, to some degree. Like most people, my whole life I had been exposed to various stereotypes and generalizations, and I had run into people (some of them relatives) that were uncomfortably bigoted. But like most people, I had been taught my whole life that I shouldn't be predjudiced and bigoted, becuase it wasn't based on anything other than hatred. I had been taught to give all strangers the same amount of respect and courtesey.
But what I found was that the supposedly 'hate based' predjudices--especially the common ones--were based on very concrete reality. What I found was that the rosy picture painted over the reality presented throughout my education didn't always jive with the cold hard truth of the "real" real world.
Sure there was always someone that would break the mold, but when I could literally predict the amount of tip I received by the color of someone's skin, the size of their house, or the accent of their voice, I knew something was wrong, be it me or what was fed to me.
That's when I quit. It was too much for me to deal with at the time (in addition to my schoolwork). I wasn't looking for a lesson in life, I was just looking for a few extra bucks.
