While I wait for Whomageddon to finish airing so I can download, here's a poll!

[gogmagog]

[Poll #1218262]

I'm just curious about the art of tipping; I'm well-versed in the art of restaurant tipping (having grown up with "home cooking" being various Kansas City restaurants), but I'm always unsure when it comes to those other kinds of tips how much I should give. (I usually end up going for the high side of what I think is acceptable, because I'd rather err on the generous side, but then I wonder whether I'm tipping TOO highly.)

Note that I ask for "on average"; what I mean by that is, how much would you tip for acceptable to good service in this area? Also, if any of these results don't apply, or you have other thoughts about tipping and such, post them in the comments!

Comments

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

Didn't answer the cab question because I've never been in a cab before. (Hicksville, I lives in it.) And I don't usually get anything more complicated than plain old coffee or tea at actual coffeeshops, so yep, change. Otherwise it's 20% across the board.

THIS IS SORT OF EMBARRASSING, but I have to carry around a little card that lists 15% and 20% of various dollar amounts because I can't do math in my head. XD;;

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Hey, Kalamazoo isn't hicksville! After all, it DOES have pretty much THE medievalist conference in the US (to which I will drag my lazy ass one of these days, I'm sure), which makes it automatically awesome. XD

And yeah, I follow the same strategy you do - 20% across the board, except change at coffeeshops (though there again I do 20% if I use a card).

And I suck at mental math too, but 20% is super-easy for me because 10% is the easiest thing in the world - just take off the last digit and skootch everything over, and then you just double it. So, say your bill is $15.19, then you drop off the last digit so it's $1.51 - 10% - and then double it, so the final tip is $3.02).

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

Haha. I'm really more in the outskirts than the actual city of Kalamazoo, though. Just a squeak away from endless fields of corn and cows. ;P (Not that I mind! I like the quiet.)

Oh, but I can't even do THAT. 10% is easy, sure, but once it comes to doubling it (at least if it's not at an easy even number like $1.50 whose "double" I already know) I'm like uhhh... yeah. I'm pretty much dyscalculic. XD;;;

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess you could round before doubling? Like to $1.50 or $2.00 or whatever? XD;;;

[vaulted-eel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could. But even then, there aren't that many numbers I automatically know the double of, so... it's just easier for me to look at my card. I really am just mathematically retarded. XD; See, your idea of using 10% and then doubling it would NEVER have occurred to me. Most of the time when I see numbers, it's like my brain goes out for lunch and a drink.

Oh, I was reading a comment you made to someone else, and it sounds like your dad tipped very much like mine does. He's a little better about it now, but back in the day he was always trying to cheat people out of their tips. D: My mom and I would sneak extra bills onto the table when we were about to leave too. (And this was when the service was GOOD. If it was bad, they'd be lucky to get away with no tip. He enjoys yelling. XD;;)