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Cool Breeze Posted 15 years ago
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Tipping in New York
A Helsingin Sanomat reporter lives in New York. She wrote a hilarious column about tipping in Manhattan. I'll quote a few lines:
"In New York someone is always expecting a tip from you. You have to tip taxi drivers, waitresses and errand boys. At New Year's caretakers, doormen, cleaning ladies, mailmen, teachers will be glad if you remember them. People working in the service industry simply wouldn't manage on their meager wages without tips.
"We recently moved to our new apartment in the heart of Manhattan, which is why a host of service people of all kinds have paid visits to us. One of them installed the Internet, another installed the blinds in the windows and yet another adjusted the heating. One drilled holes in the walls and another filled them.
"Some of them had to be tipped, some didn't. To my mind, I had learned to do the tipping correctly and naturally. That was before I had my hair cut. I tipped the woman who washed my hair and my regular hair stylist. While I was getting my usual treatment, a trainee walked up to me and offered "free" massage of hands to me. I think I gave the trainee too many dollars to stop her mistreating my fingers.
"With aching hands and a near empty wallet I made my way out of the hairdresser's and saw a man at the door with a paper cup in his hand. Angered, I thought that he lured customers for the establishment and that I was supposed to tip him as well. I put some money in the man's cup. At the very same moment - but sadly too late - I realized that the man was holding a cup of coffee in his hand and that he was waiting for his wife, who was in the hairdresser's."
CB
"In New York someone is always expecting a tip from you. You have to tip taxi drivers, waitresses and errand boys. At New Year's caretakers, doormen, cleaning ladies, mailmen, teachers will be glad if you remember them. People working in the service industry simply wouldn't manage on their meager wages without tips.
"We recently moved to our new apartment in the heart of Manhattan, which is why a host of service people of all kinds have paid visits to us. One of them installed the Internet, another installed the blinds in the windows and yet another adjusted the heating. One drilled holes in the walls and another filled them.
"Some of them had to be tipped, some didn't. To my mind, I had learned to do the tipping correctly and naturally. That was before I had my hair cut. I tipped the woman who washed my hair and my regular hair stylist. While I was getting my usual treatment, a trainee walked up to me and offered "free" massage of hands to me. I think I gave the trainee too many dollars to stop her mistreating my fingers.
"With aching hands and a near empty wallet I made my way out of the hairdresser's and saw a man at the door with a paper cup in his hand. Angered, I thought that he lured customers for the establishment and that I was supposed to tip him as well. I put some money in the man's cup. At the very same moment - but sadly too late - I realized that the man was holding a cup of coffee in his hand and that he was waiting for his wife, who was in the hairdresser's."
CB
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