Do you give a tip when paying for a haircut ?

old.Tohtori

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Thorwyn[B&Q] said:
Yes, I would. In fact, I have done it a lot. Because I know it´s not the waitresses fault and if she´s still showing engagement by saying sorry or still being friendly, then why should I let her suffer for the bs that happened in the kitchen. As I said, I`m paying for the "extra" service.
On the other hand, I`m NOT giving a tip if the waitress is rude, slow, bored or giving me the feeling of bothering her, regardless of how good the food/beer/drink was.

Ah good, then you're one of the actually thinking people. Bra *clap clap*

Seriously it's rather rare to see. Shame really.

Oh and none taken on the personal thing, happens.
 

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Lets say you go to a restaurant for a sit-down meal. You pay the check, leave $5 tip on the plate, and walk out. What happens to that $5 ? Do you care ? Does *your* waitress get it ? Does it go into a tip bucket and its shared out equally at the end of the night ? Or do you hand the tip directly to the waitress ?
 

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It´s a different system where I live, Lamp.

First off, there is no plate. You´re always paying the waiter directly. He tells you how much you have to pay for the bill, then you can "add" something if you like. (btw. that was a funny situation during my first trip to the UK. Went there with a friend of mine and we had lunch in a restaurant by to the motorway. When we were done, the waitress brought us the bill on a plate and went away.. leaving the two of us sitting there, discussing what to do now, since we just didn´t know that it´s the usual way to just put the money on the plate and leave the restaurant. Took us a while to figure it out. :))

What happens to the tip isn´t my cup of tea. If it´s a large restaurant, the waiters are usually sharing at the end of the day. In smaller restaurants or pubs, the waiters usually keep it for themselves.
 

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tris- said:
mc donalds staff dont get the respect they deserve :p

without me cooking your happy meal for little sheila, youd have fucking hell on your hands 24/7 "MUMMY I WANT THE TOY THE TOY THE TOY"

i once got a tip when i worked tehre ffrom this old man :) (£1)
 

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LOL @ this - its from the NY Times:

Sometimes it really pays to wait on the wealthy. The SULTAN OF BRUNEI, believed to be the world's richest man, left a $170,000 tip Monday for the hotel staff at the Four Seasons in Cyprus at the end of a five-day stay there, The Associated Press reported yesterday. The 46-year-old ruler of the small, oil-rich sultanate is said to be worth at least $33 billion. He attended last week's meeting of the Commonwealth, an association comprising Britain and 49 of its former colonies, held in the coastal city of Limassol .

Guess wealth is relative. 170K to a multi-billionaire is nothing.
 

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i dont tip except for exceptionally good restaurants or barstaff and maybe a quid tip for a taxi driver if i am drunk.

Every taxi i've got i give a fiver too. Only if they have a chat without mentioning how busy they've been
 

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I wouldnt tip a haircut tbh, its not like its hard, to takes lots of effort. The prices they charge are enough imo.
I tipped when I was on safarri, like our guide who saved us from angry lions etc, and I tip in a nice restaurant, aside from that, i dont really tip.

having said that, when I go and the girl who washes my hair first, and does it well, like a nice head massage, and rubs her tits in my face, I almost consider tipping then :D
 

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Thorwyn[B&Q] said:
I`m always giving a tip when I`m receiving a service... restaurant, pub, hairdresser, pizza delivery. It´s a sign of: you´ve done an ok job.

Yes, same goes for me =)
 

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The price of haircuts is insane these days. Sometimes I think I should just get myself some clippers and be done with it. No. 2 all over. Job done.

My dad was telling me that he used to get his hair cut for 25pence, he'd get tea with a nip of something in it, and an hours worth of blokey chat. Those were the days when you bought condoms at the barbers lol
 

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I tip my barber - he only charges £4.50 so I always give him adecent tip - he does a good job and remembers stuff from the last time I spoke to him as well - always impresses me when people actually take time to remember stuff about their clients etc. I buy barstaff a drink - more when a place is busy - if they are run off their feet its nice to let them know its appreciated - same goes for waiters/waitress's etc - especially if they have big tits :) j/k.

One waitress in Planet Hollywood in New York once at the end of our meal brought us a guide on how to tip in America - she had been ok but didnt do anything special - and for the cheek of the tip guide - I didnt tip her - NY is very cosmopolitan and who is to say we didnt actually live there - her assumption of our ignorance pissed me off tbh. I have done bar work and waited on when I was a lot younger and always appreciated a tip for good service so now its nice to do the same for someone else tbh.
 

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Lamp said:
The price of haircuts is insane these days. Sometimes I think I should just get myself some clippers and be done with it. No. 2 all over. Job done.

My dad was telling me that he used to get his hair cut for 25pence, he'd get tea with a nip of something in it, and an hours worth of blokey chat. Those were the days when you bought condoms at the barbers lol


my dad was telling me stories about his childhood and remembered that he didnt know what "something for the weekend" meant. Years later found out it was condoms
 

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pikeh said:
my dad was telling me stories about his childhood and remembered that he didnt know what "something for the weekend" meant. Years later found out it was condoms

Today "something for the weekend" is usually in powder form and illegal :p
 

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