RadioBanter - Do Hams Tip?

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"Aww, he's no fun. He fell right over."

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"N2EY" wrote in message
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Of course hams tip.

All you have to do to get a ham to tip
is to apply sufficient lateral force
above the ham's center of gravity.

This result is, of course, completely
and accurately predicted by
Fudd's First Law of Opposition:

"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over."

73 es HNY de Jim, N2EY

Robert Casey wrote in message ...
Alan Jatowski wrote:

Their body odor lingers for
hours after they're gone.

It's not just old hams, many old non-hams are stinky too.
I don't know why many people from the WW2 generation
don't shower every day.

you are a dumbass

"Robert Casey" wrote

I don't know why many people from the WW2 generation
don't shower every day.

Robert, have you ever run into someone that you felt you just didn't like
very well, but you couldn't identify a good reason for that feeling. You've
just given me my good reason. You're an asshole, and you're damned good at
it.

Hans

In article T9FJb.149570$ss5.88545@clgrps13, "Paul Keenleyside"
writes:

Why tip for expected average service?

Tips are a reward for exceptional service, not average service.

In every part of the USA that I've been to, tipping is customary in
full-service restaurants and certain other situations. That's for *average*
service.

If the waitress went out of her way to provide extra service other than
carrying a plate of food or a cup of coffee (which is
what she does anyway), why tip?

Because it's expected. In fact, it's so expected that wages for waitpersons are
low *and* the feds expect anyone in certain occupations to report a certain
amount of tip income that doesn't show on their W2.

Tips are for service over and beyond the call of duty, such as being a bit
more friendly to visitors, rather than the run of the
mill service. (Take the order and deliver the food and drink).

Where did you get that idea?

A tip isn't
given to a waitress that is crabby because her boyfriend came home drunk as
a skunk and still has to get the brakes on his 68 Ford pickup truck fixed.

Sure. That's not *average* service - it's poor service.

Tips are an option for extra service, not a wage.

I'll tip if I get very nice friendly service, but will not tip if the
service is average. I tip 10% (that way I don't have to do much arithmetic,
but will round up to the nearest dollar.

15 % is customary.

For taxis,let's say for a $16.00 fare, I'll give the driver $20.00 and he
can keep the change if he gets me to where I'm goin' safely and efficiently,
the cab is well kept and clean. I've been in cabs that should have been
taken off the road, and the cab driver gone through a wash, rinse and spin
cycle a few times.

That's a lot more than 10%!

Shouldn't *average* cab service include all those things?

In article , "Herbert Khaury"
writes:

"Aww, he's no fun. He fell right over."

"I spell my name...DANGER"

"Everyone knew her as Nancy"

"Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers"

73 de Jim "still waiting for the electrician" N2EY

Good evening, mister dang-her. Rocky Roccoco, at your cervix.

.... how does he make his voice do that?

:-)

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"N2EY" wrote in message
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In article , "Herbert Khaury"
writes:

"Aww, he's no fun. He fell right over."

"I spell my name...DANGER"

"Everyone knew her as Nancy"

"Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers"

73 de Jim "still waiting for the electrician" N2EY

If she doesn't like what she is earning, I suggest she get a job somewhere
else.
Bob, AA8X

"Alan Jatowski" wrote in message
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Linda Sue Williams, 41, is a waitress at Miss Valinda's Country
Kitchen. After waitressing for over 20 years, she is somewhat
a judge of male character.

Linda Sue's customers are mostly blue collar family men. They
come in, drink coffee, read the paper, order breakfast and make
a little small talk with Linda Sue and the other waitress staff.
The one and two dollar tips they leave Linda Sue are appreciated.
Sometimes on Fridays a large group will sit at one table, and
Linda Sue may make as much as $20 in tips for the table.

Once a year the ham radio hamfest comes to town, says Linda
Sue. They demand endless cups of coffee, dump more food on
the floor than they do in their fat bellies and expect instant
service, while making lewd remarks to me, says Linda Sue.
The table is filled with their expensive little toy radios and palm
computers. They brag endlessly what important jobs they have,
how many people work for them and how many college degrees
they have.

"If only their tipping habits were as big as their inflated egos,"
said Linda Sue. When they leave, I am lucky if I find a few pennies
and dimes left among all the trash. Their body odor lingers for
hours after they're gone.

"Hams are smelly cheap braggarts," says Linda Sue.

Robert, have you ever run into someone that you felt you just didn't like
very well, but you couldn't identify a good reason for that feeling. You've
just given me my good reason. You're an asshole, and you're damned good at
it.

There's people in the group rec.audio.tubes that do a much better job at
that than I
ever can do. Compared to them, I'm a pretender. :-)

BTW, I didn't say "all", only said "many". Rarely run across such in baby
boomers or later.

In article , "Herbert Khaury"
writes:

Good evening, mister dang-her. Rocky Roccoco, at your cervix.

... how does he make his voice do that?

:-)

Must come from all that time spent driving on the Antelope Freeway in a car
from Ralph Spoilsport Motors ("factory air-conditioned air from our airt
conditioned factory")

73 de Jim "I wonder where Ruth is?" N2EY