What. The. FUCK...is this a new trend or WHAT???

[jus_the_facts]

....I've gotten addicted to Sonic's new cranberry slush...Route 44 costs 1.95...the young fuckwads NEVER give me my nickle back..they just walk off with my fuckin' change like it's supposed to be an expected TIP or some such...this also happened at a local seafood restaurant recently????? :wtf: :grr:

[qnr]

1. I've never experienced that. I'd most certainly call them on it, if it

happened to me.

[jus_the_facts]

3. I just left there and this boy actually asked me if I wanted my change....

....I got a burger with my slush and the change was 53 cents...I said uhm yes I DO want my change...thanks for askin' me instead of just walkin' away with it like several others have done...I intend on callin' the manager about it as it's happened too many times. :banghead:

[petronius]

2. How bizarre - that's never happened to me...

I've certainly had them round off the nickel in my favor, but I've never had the clerk keep even a penny...

[jus_the_facts]

6. I usually will leave a few pennies in the little tray for others.....

...or put change in donation jars at counters...or offer someone in front of me some change if they are short....but this is like a slap in the FACE...I keep change...roll it and use it when I'm busted broke...it spends just as well as cash and plastic. :grr:

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. A couple weeks ago, a friend treated me to breakfast....

to celebrate my birthday. She had put the money into the portfolio and left it while she visited the ladies' room. The server came and asked if we wanted change while she was gone. I hadn't seen what bill she had put into it because she was being discreet, and so the server came back and asked again.

There was a $100 bill in there! Damn right she wanted change. As far as I am concerned, the server should automatically bring change -- unless you tell them that it is even.

My point is...they should give you your nickel. If you want to leave it, that should be your business, not theirs.

[qnr]

5. Absolutely, and I say this as a long-time "overtipper" n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. As my friend and I are, too...

The choice should be the diner's, not the waitstaff.

[petronius]

8. Yes, that is a huge pet peeve for me, too!

We tend to be pretty good tippers (my wife waited a lot of tables back in the day), but I cannot stand the "do you want your change?" question. My other pet peeve is when a server addresses an entire table as "you guys"; I picked that one up from my mom.

Oh yeah - children in nice restaurants really suck, too! :hide:

[jus_the_facts]

9. Thank You....

....I hate to peeve but this has really PEEVED me OFF! :D :hi:

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. You are very welcome!!!

:D and :hi: back atcha.

[rug]

11. Tightwad.

[jus_the_facts]

20. Not in the slightest...it's the principle of the matter....

.....carhops at Sonic shouldn't expect tips...they should demand a union or something instead of basically STEALIN' change at random. :eyes:

[Redstone]

12. You get to eat at Sonic. I don't. Therefore, I hate you, and believe

that you deserve everything you get.

I'll bet every time you walk out of Sonic, you have a twisted, pitiless smirk on your face, just thinking about us poor bastards in the Northeast who can't eat there without taking a fifteen-hour drive.

You damn Midwesterners.

Redstone

[Shakespeare]

14. .....

:rofl:

I SO agree. I actually tear up at the thought of a cherry limeade.

[Redstone]

16. Screw the drinks. Those Midwestern SOBs get the BURGERS!

And we don't.

And the really cruel part is that Sonic advertises on the Cartoon Network here in New England, where it's 800 miles to their closest location!

Arrgh!

Redstone

[jus_the_facts]

17. LOL... I don't live in the midwest....

....but this IS Louisiana...that's why I get what I deserve I guess. x(

:hi:

[ForrestGump]

13. It happened to me, once, recently, too

Same thing...had a nickel coming back and the little f*** didn't even ask, but pocketed it. I was kind of stunned -- not by the financial loss but by the principle of it -- and I didn't want to start some big incident ("hey, everyone...look! Elvis is kicking the sh** out of Bobby!"), so I just walked away. But I was more mad over the next little while when my mind ventured back, unbiden, to the horror of that exchange...just the sheer presumption of it all. I'm a generous tipper, and -- especially when I have an actual income -- I'll drop my change in those little things at the supermarket checkout and generally be generous (giving away Cadillacs, airplanes...you know; that sort of thing), but I don't appreciate some entitled-feeling little brat determining for himself that I want to donate my nickel to him. F*** you, Bobby.

If I ever see Bobby again, I think I'll knock him down and rifle through his wallet 'til I find my nickel. Little swine. And then I'll donate it to one of those county after-school etiquette programs.

I've had the same kind of "do you want the change" thing now and then, especially at upscale restaurants (usually not on my tab but on a showbiz account courtesy of relatives, because I don't often have the desire to eat in especially upscale places) and there's only one real answer to such a question: "f*** you, garçon, you're f***ing right I want my f***ing change, you f***ing f***" (though this only really works if you're Joe Pesci or Robert DeNiro, preferably in a movie, and have a gun, though it should be noted that, in Los Angeles, garçon is about 100% certain to be an actor, anyway).

[jus_the_facts]

18. LMAO....."look everyone...Elvis is kickin' the shit out of Bobby..."

:rofl:

.....I would definitely PAY to see that!! :hug: :* :loveya:

[wildhorses]

15. sounds like a cheap enough tip to me cos

that would be ALL they get:evilgrin:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

19. Happens to me all the time now

And I have sworn a vendetta against the idiotic cashier at the Southwestern Medical Center library who kept the $20 I gave her and insisted I gave her a $5. That was one expensive bottle of milk!

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. That's why I only buy shit that costs $2.05

Thanks for the subsidy, by the way. :)