Hilka Klinkenberg
Hilka Klinkenberg
giving guilt people stop time tips tripped
I think we've been guilt tripped enough into giving people tips unnecessarily, and it's time to stop tipping people who give you abominable service.
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Years ago, I had a wonderful relationship with the doorman in my building, who would always stop and talk to me after I came in from the opera. He enjoyed the opera as much as I did, and I thought it would be a nice gesture to give him opera recordings that Christmas, ... When I gave them to him, he looked completely confused -- and our relationship was never the same afterward.