Random Bitching Monologues

[Susquehanna Birder]

Everyone thinks that they have something profound to say and there's no convincing people that they are idiots.

As evidenced by the huge popularity of blogs and podcasts.

[ice grillin you]

What the hell is with the SUV-sized baby strollers?

way worse than this is bags/briefcases and esepcially backpacks on wheels....the people who use these things are unbelievably lazy rude pieces of shtein and have no care in the world about anyone but themselves...if you dont take public transportation in a big city to work then you probably cant fully appreciate the annoyance of this but i wanna murder these people...how lazy do you have to be to buy a back pack that has wheels??

[Rome]

The stroller thing is annoying but there's a reason for them.  Babies and small children today are a lot fatter than they used to be.

It's not that children are any less active.  It's just that the garbage we fill them with makes them fat as hell.  We used to treat our daughter to a single Happy Meal per week from McDonald's but not any longer.  That stuff is nothing but poison.


@ rjs. . . I agree about the tip thing.  A friend of mine is a waitress at a local pub and they had the UFC there the other night.  She had a table full of metrosexual roid-raging Romes she was waiting on and their tab was like 150 bucks.  They left her 10 dollars for about 4 hours work.  They ran her ass off too and for just about nothing.   Idiots.

[Wingspan]

i was a waiter a long time ago. i remember that you had to claim 8% of your sales as tips for tax reasons.

so i will guarantee that i will leave 8-10% as a tip. anything else is based on merit and service. i expect a waiter to be upbeat, courtious, and informative on what they are serving. i will tip up to 20% if i feel the service is great.

[Susquehanna Birder]

I go with 20% as a general rule of thumb, unless the server does something ridiculous. Maybe not exactly 20%, because I usually approximate to the closest buck.

[Diomedes]

Also, people who don't tip well. Cheap farging pricks.

This is a problem that needs greater bitching, to be sure.  I'll highlight just one point:  tipping at the bar.  It's 2007.  People have been tipping a dollar per drink since like 1972.  It's time to up the ante you fargers.  Bartenders are pretty goddamned special people, terribly important to our society.  If you aren't tipping two bucks per drink, you are insulting some of our most crucial citizens.

Two dollars per beer.  If you get a round of drinks, increase the tip to four bucks.  Repent!!

[SunMo]

how about i run a tab and tip 20% at the end of the night?

[rjs246]

If I'm paying per drink, it's a dollar each. If I'm running a tab its 20%. I tip 20% pretty much no matter what. Anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant should know that undertipping is only done by scumbags and tightwads.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Decent service always gets 20%+.

Suck-ass service can still get 15% or so, if the issues don't seem to be entirely the waiter's fault.

Bartenders get the shaft if they continually and obviously take longer with my drinks compared to others'.

[Susquehanna Birder]

If I'm paying per drink, it's a dollar each. If I'm running a tab its 20%.

Same here. If a bartender wants more tips, then he/she must bring me drinks faster. 

[Diomedes]

Y'all are some cheap bastiches.

[Seabiscuit36]

My wife and i both worked in the restaurants so we always give 20%plus, now just as FF said if the service sucks because the kitchen was farging up we wont penalize the waiter, but if service just plain sucks.  They hopefully get the point that they get minimal tip because they did a minimal job.  

As far a beers go, its always a dollar a beer.  Many times when we first get to the bar i'll leave 5-10 the first time around just to get an in.  I'll go 50cents per beer if i keep having trouble with a bartender getting me drinks quickly when i know i'm being looked at and passed over.  

[Seabiscuit36]

Plus its a little different in NYC Dio than lets say Delaware

[Diomedes]

Good point.

Maybe $2 is too rich for the sticks.  But generally speaking, I think bartenders should be tipped better.

[ice grillin you]

unless its one of my neighborhood spots or i know the bartender im gonna tip minimally because in general bartenders are stylishly dressed young mans


waiters if they are even decent ill pretty much always tip 25%