Dude karma! Karma, karma

Homer Simpsons Karma Lollapalooza - YouTube
Hope that worked.
Anyways I remember watching this episode when it was new and ever since I always think this whenI leave a tip.
Well due to some surprise expenses this month my gf and I agreed to be extra frugal, but we still wanted some steamies and poutine for supper. Off to the greasy spoon down the street, payed for our order the change was 1.80 or something so I toss it in the tip jar. Then my girlfriend shoots me a look like I killed her cat. As we leave I repeat that line to her. Didn't help my case one bit as she shot me the same look. Well sure enough as soon as we finished our meal her stepdad calls. He does renovations and says his plumber (whom I've never met) has an old 12 ton ac for me. I still don't know if this will fit in my 4x8 trailer and my truck is a 4 banger Nissan. But hey! (Jack!) where there's weight there's a way.
So say it with me guys; Dude! Karmaa!

The Dude abides...but Karma!

Sirscrapalot - Karma in the bank is good as gold. - Me..you, someone..I dunno!

Tip jars on the counter are largely for show-n-tell, not necessarily because someone worked their tootsies off setting up your table, bringing your food (three plates balanced on each arm and one on top their head) drinks, sauces, dressings, extra biscuits, and doggie bags. I know they cooked the stuff, and all the other chores that go with it, handed you your plates and cups, and rang up your bill, but really, isn't that part of their deal ?
In the agreement you made with your gf, she may have been giving much less in her own opportunities to "tip the jar" (making herself look good in front the crowd), and been giving only a minimal amount(per your agreement), which brings us to the look!
Since the money was in your hand, you might have let the 80 cents make a nice Cha-Ching-ing sound as it dropped into the jar, and subtly pocketed the dollar, honoring your agreement to be more frugal for a time ; )

To add on to my post..I always tip, not always for karma, but hey..they make a whopping 3.50 an hour or whatever it currently is. If the service is good, I show it in my tip. If it sucks..I show it in my tip. :)

Far as tip jar..sub shop I use down here has one, I toss a buck or two whenever I get a sub. Why? Cause when I go in they remember me, remember my order, an I get served much faster, plus the subs kick butt an the girls who make them do bust their asses making them. It's a busy shop an the best subs on the sandbar..hell their some of the best I've ever had. So it's worth it to tip, it gives them a lil extra for doing a good job an making my sub right. ;)

On thing I hate about tipping tho, is that whole added to the bill thing. If a tip is called for I feel it's up to me an my party to decide what to leave, not you to add it to my bill. We have some of this down here on the sandbar, an it drives me nuts. I tip much better then whatever your trying to sneak into my bill. A tip isn't mandatory, an folks who act like "oh I can suck at this job an still make awesome tips!" find out real quick that ain't the case when your dealing with me. I'll leave you a buck, cause I have a heart. Do your job, keep my soda filled, don't walk over an ask me how my dinner is when my mouth is full an your going to be getting a whole heck of a lot more then 1.00. LOL. I'm easy to please, but give me attitude, make me have to beg for a refill or napkins, an your getting a whole big dollar.

I've only never tipped one time an that was at a Waffle House outside Richmond, Va cause the waitress sucked, the staff sucked, what they tried to pass off as food sucked. I was so disgusted I paid my bill an walked out, an my wife was staring at me..she couldn't believe I didn't leave anything, when I always leave at lest a buck. If I can find a pic of the food I took that night...gah, you'd all have nightmares. I've seen a better omelet made by a dog. lol. An it pained me to..cause I love me some Waffle House hashbrowns!

So in short..I tip accordingly. If the service is good, you'll get a good tip, if it sucks..you won't. ;)

Sirscrapalot - I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser. - Arnold Palmer

Panhandlers are everywhere here so are tip jars-I never give money to panhandlers whether they work inside or work the parking lot.

I always tip servers though if I dine in.

The retaurant i used to work for years ago collected all the tips together and gave EVERYONE a portion. Even me as the dish kid. I only ever got like 5 bucks but hey I felt pretty good gettin part of the tips, cause without me busting my butt alot of the time (I did have times when i fooled around with some of the guys when it was dead, but that wasnt often) they wouldnt have clean plates to serve guests. And I used to get tons of crap from all the servers. More than i deserved!

Anyways, They obviously gave the servers much more but they made it even between them so all of them got the same amount. Which i dont totally agree with cause if one guys completely sucks at his job, hes gonna get the same amount as the guy that busted his ass.

What really drives me nuts is when i go to pick up take-out, they always look for a tip. I feel like saying F-O all you did was say hello and push a few buttons on the register. If anything id like to tip the cook... I actually had one girl at Wild Wing the other day give me attitude cause i didnt tip on a takeout order... If it wasnt packed i would have told her how i really felt.

Well like I said this place is down the street, so they do know me pretty well. Also at this place they split the tip jar and yes even though my order was takeout I still left a tip. Karma is not the only reason I tip but it is about 90% of the reason. Call it selfish generosity if you will, but hey don't knock the system cause it works! Anywho I'm off to pick this sucker up! Hope I can load it... Maybe I shoulda tipped more :p

Oh and about panhandlers I always give to them too but for a different reason; I have been there myself, even if it was only for a few weeks. It was one hell of a life experience the beggars up here seem to form their own community. I'll never forget my first day on the street, one guy was doing quite well he left and when he returned he handed me a coffee and donut. If they can be so generous then why can't the rest of us?

will a 4x8 trailer carry 24000 lbs???? I think you're gonna flatten the tires!

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Originally Posted by newattitude

will a 4x8 trailer carry 24000 lbs???? I think you're gonna flatten the tires!

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Or have a blow out soon after driving!

12 ton is not a measurement of weight in this case. When talking about a/c a ton=12000btu iirc.
Overall it weighed about 1200lbs and I managed to get her loaded alone. I forget who said it in an older post but the question was what part of the body is it best to lift with? Legs? No. Back? H*ll no! The answer is your mind. I had the crew leave It on its side. When I got there I used a come along to tip it into then slide it into my trailer(this is where a steel floor comes in handy!). I strapped it down and was off to the yard. I really wish I hadn't forgotten my phone at home otherwise I'd have pics. Best part is: my yard lets me break down as I unload.
On the way home I passed through an area that had trash day tomorrow and refilled the trailer. At one house alone I found two heavy crockery bags with something square in them I figured they were some sort of electrical box but when I picked one up the bottom gave out and out plops a battery. There's an easy 24$ and at the same house I found a walk in freezer door. Now I have to see if it's worth trying to resell... If not it looks to have abou 7lbs of brass hardware on it which is still a nice score.
Anyways I gotta get back to it.
Hope you all have the same luck as me, just y'know not in my area. :p

EDIT: Sorry I musta been posting when sawmilleng was doing the same.... But d*mn do I ever wish It was 2-4000lbs come to think of it I never did check the tags. It may have been smaller than I was told but it sure did fill the trailer well... My pocket too.

NA,
The referral to "Ton" in air conditioners is talking about the cooling capacity. It seems to me that a Ton of air conditioning capacity is about 12000BTU. So a 12 ton AC is 144,000 BTU. The ton comes from 'way back, where I think it was a reference to how much ice you could make with the cooling capacity.

Not sure about the weight, but I think a 12Ton AC might weigh in the range of 2-4,000lbs. (the experts need to chime in here) Still a lot for a little single axle trailer!

Jon.

EDIT: Sorry, I musta been posting when JapScrap was doing the same....

Tipping wasn't really the point was it? Wasn't being frugal the deal? Just sayin

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Well due to some surprise expenses this month my gf and I agreed to be extra frugal

So say it with me guys; Dude! Karmaa!

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You can actually give less in a way that gives them more. I ALLWAYS tip. Maybe sometimes not as extravagantly as others. There are kazillions of places where tipping isn't necessarily required (yes, Required, those people are largely working for YOU, and paid only a fraction of what even the dishwasher is making) cafeterias etc where you go through line and carry your own food, get your own drink, and find your own table, then carry your own dirty plate to the dishwasher window, but most times there is STILL someone who makes the rounds filling your drink glasses and bringing extra napkins, steak sauces, etc. It isn't necessary to tip there either, and too many use that as an excuse to be cheap and rude. When I would frequent those places on almost a daily basis, I'd love when it came time to go, especially when the table steward had been good, and I'd make a point to be seen pulling out my wallet and dropping a buck on the table. Was it so everyone would think I was ohh so cool? NO, it was to show them it actually didn't hurt to brighten the day of the "help", and it would get the ball rolling for everyone to drop a buck(or two). If it was done to look good, that's a short lived reason, there's 6 million people all around and tomorrow they wouldn't recognize you from Adam, but they Will remember what you did. One small tip might get em 20!

Extravagance isn't always really the trick, and here it wasn't even in the deal. How much wasn't as important to the people behind the jar as it was to the deal with your gf, and a few coins were as good (or possibly even better) in that case as the bill to put some "jingle" in the air, and it would have kept things in line with your previous agreement.

I hope things go well with the AC unit she found, haha, maybe it'll help make up for your tip ; )

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Tipping wasn't really the point was it? Wasn't being frugal the deal? Just sayin

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Yeeeaaahhhh but you know how some of us always get way off topic.

Why tip on take out? Would you tip at the dry cleaner? If you are going to pool the "tips" do the cooks get some? Normally not!

Yeah, the add it to the bill and not tell ya bit me once...found out I tipped 15% at the table and another 15% on the bill when I got home, the service was good hence the cash on the table but it wasn't THAT good (or she wasn't that cute..) :) anyhoo I learned to look at the bill before tipping since then I learned my lesson.

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Yeah, the add it to the bill and not tell ya bit me once...found out I tipped 15% at the table and another 15% on the bill when I got home, the service was good hence the cash on the table but it wasn't THAT good (or she wasn't that cute..) :) anyhoo I learned to look at the bill before tipping since then I learned my lesson.

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They probably get loads of people with that one.

I worked at restaurants for 15+ years. During this time I would occasionally have to take to-go orders. While they don't require as much time as actually serving a table (refilling drinks, clearing plates, running multiple courses) they do take more time than asking someone what they want and typing it in. They have to package everything up, include utensils, sauces etc., they have to run your card or make change. This job is usually done by the host/hostess who is also seating people and answering a phone at the same time. That being said, I don't think they deserve a large tip, but I usually tip them 5% and sometimes 10% on large orders.

This is just because I worked in the restaurant industry for so long and I am empathetic to the ****ty wages that you can make. I do get pissed off at all the tip jars you see everywhere now (I even heard that all the marijuana dispensaries in Colorado have tip jars for the "budtenders". Who would of thought one day even drug dealers would want a piece of the pie?!?).

But...at the end of the day it is still your money. Do what you want with it.

Bear, first I want to say i certainly did not tip to look good. I was still wearing scrapping clothes so that ship sailed when I walked in the door :p I have always tipped well ever since I was a delivery guy and my gf knows this so if she wanted hot dogs then she should know I'm gonna tip. Also up here we have coins the loonie and the toonie and actually we just got rid of the penny, two ways to justify tipping more. No one likes too much jingle in their pocket and we're used to leaving money on the table when we round up or down to the nearest .05. Plus I'm Canadian! Up here we apologize when people bump into us on the street.:p
But in the end I told my gf how much I could make off the a/c and she was all smiles the rest of the night.

Oh and newattitude and Jord one of you guys didn't knock on wood. I got a flat a few blocks from home but at least the day was over and the trailer was empty. Luckiest part is I picked up 3 brand new wheels/tires last week free off craigslist so I said screw it and just drove home. I also had the ramp on my trailer drop open while I was driving. Never happened before. The idiot tailgating me actually had the gall to try and give me sh*t for it almost hitting his car... Seriously? The thing is 3 feet long not 3 car lengths. I told him what's what. Not all Canadians are friendly by the way. Especially here in French town. Fortunately I know how to yell and swear in French.
Happy scrapping guys and thanks everyone for listening the only person, at my house, who listens anymore when I talk scrap is the dog.

Happy scrapping guys and thanks everyone for listening the only person, at my house, who listens anymore when I talk scrap is the dog.

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Haha!

I know that feeling!

Sirscrapalot - Manners are a lot like common sense, every one has it but not every one uses it. - Me..for now.

Really awesome .Keep going :)

Whether I get a salad bar ($6.00) or a meal (items up to $13.00) at one of my favorite restaurants, my tip is always 2 bucks. A bit high on a six dollar salad (I keep my bill down by drinking only water) which is what I get most of the time, and maybe a bit light on the thirteen dollar meal, but I don't want to figure out the pennies and I am seen as a good tipper and get great service.

Anyplace that hands me food across a counter without any table service? Their tip jar can go pound sand.