… when you sent in a cheque and it hasn’t been cashed. They confirmed that they received it, cashed the second one you sent in (because you had to send two…). You even told them it hasn’t been cashed yet…. Is it up to them? I guess I am marked as paid… but….
I have fun looking at people’s discarded bank receipts. It’s fun to see the ones that have $3 in them, and fascination (and incomprehension at why they don’t invest it) when they have more than $5000. When I was in Boston, one of the girls I was travelling with apparently has the same interest. She found a bank receipt… guess how much?? continue reading »
I know you’re always supposed to pay 15% tip, but I’d rather pay up to 30% for excellent service, 15% for expected service, and less for poor service. I think that paying extra at times makes it justifiable to pay less at others. It should just average 15%, right?
Last night we went to Swiss Chalet. The waitress was friendly enough and the food was good, but she (and all the staff) were quite inefficient. It seemed that waitresses were serving tables scattered throughout the restaurant. The manager wouldn’t seat people even though there were empty tables. Our waitress was single-task oriented — she’d deliver a meal then walk back to the kitchen without stopping at another table on the way. It took 10-15 minutes to get our drinks, another 30 minutes to get our meals, and 10-15 minutes to pay our bill. Even then, we paid on a gift certificate and she didn’t bring the bill - just the receipt. There was no room/opportunity to leave a tip and since we planned on putting the tip on the gift card we had no cash to leave for her. So we walked out.
Another time we went to Shoeless Joes - the food was good, the waitress was nice enough, until the end when we asked for our bill, put our coats on, and she dropped off the VISA slips and simply said “Top copy is mine.” No good-bye, have a nice day, thanks for coming, see you again, it’s been a pleasure, enjoy the mints — it was quite rude. I think we left a small tip that time.
There are other restaurants we’ve been to that the server has been excellent - quick, very friendly, cares about the quality of what we receive, and promotes a very positive environment and experience… we had one like that last week at Smittys.
I begrudgingly give a 15% tip for average service, but I cannot bring myself to give the same tip for bad service, and I feel cheap if I don’t significantly reward excellent service. Growing up I don’t think my parents ever left any tip - I dunno, though.
Uh, that kinda makes it look East Indian. I was just trying to spell it phonetically. Anyways, I usually don’t go in there - Jenn does her stuff, and I leave her alone to enjoy it. But today I went in looking for a floppy hat (like Bill Mason), and came out with a bright yellow jacket, and an outdoorsy canoe shirt (well, it will be my hiking/canoeing shirt when I need more than just a quick-dry). It’s not a bad store, as long as you’re in the right mood, and as long as you can put up with that smell - you know, the VV smell.
The comedy crew from “Whose Line is it Anyway?” (minus Wayne Brady) will be doing an improv. night in Kingston in May. They are hillarious… but are they worth the price of $40.50 per ticket?? What do you think??