<p>axw, i always laugh when they add on the tip because like you said they add on 18 percent typically. i always tip 20 percent so if you add your tip on my bill then you are shorting your waitresses. that being said, I know quite a few people who have waitressed and have came home telling me stories of how people will tip 3 dollars on a 100 dollar check and stuff.</p>
<p>Business owners who expect me as the customer to make up for their lack of pay for their employees. If I’m paying $10+ for my meal, I shouldn’t be expected to then shell out 15% or more so that the waiter actually makes something for the day. My tip should be extra for them doing a good job.</p>
<p>Store owners who put quotation marks on signs when there’s no need for them. Folks, quotation marks are for quotations, not for emphasizing what you wrote! When you put quotation marks around “thank you” or “menu” I’m reading: You’re uneducated.</p>
<p>Speaker phone - my former boss could not dial a phone without putting it on speaker. When the person answered, she would pick up. We SHARED a small office. PICK UP THE PHONE TO MAKE A CALL.</p>
<p>Oblivious people. I once waited to pick up pictures at my daughter’s dance studio. The woman in front of me had a 12 MINUTE CONVERSATION about whether to choose THIS picture with the nicer pose or THAT picture with the cuter smile. Lady, the pictures were $6/sheet and there were at least a dozen people in line behind you! I was ready to hand you the $6 so you would buy BOTH just to get you out of there.</p>
<p>People who think their kids are the adorable star of the show, even when they are NOT. In our town people have a habit of letting their little kids go down to the front of a seating area and dance in front of the stage. Cute when it’s a Raffi-style performer. NOT cute at middle school band or choir concerts, or dance recitals. Your kid needs to learn that it’s not ALWAYS all about THEM.</p>
<p>People who throw anything out of their car window. We once followed a guy who threw his McDonalds bag out the window on the interstate. We were all furious, and my mild-mannered husband added, “I bet he has high cholesterol too.” Now whenever anyone does something obnoxious, our family joke is: he has high cholesterol.</p>
<p>Loud eaters. If there is a smacking noise, I start to twitch.</p>
<p>Oh, yes. Horrible.</p>
<p>Here’s another one. People who get to general admission events early and save bunches of seats for the friends and family who couldn’t be bothered to get there until curtain time. They are shameless. Why don’t they understand that general admission means first come, first serve? </p>
<p>One time I was driving in the parking lot at my daughter’s dance recital and I saw a space near the front. As I pulled up there was a woman putting a cooler in the middle of the space to save it for someone! I just sat there with my blinker on, trying to make her uncomfortable. She didn’t even flinch as her friend arrived and she removed the cooler and motioned her in. I could not believe it.</p>
<p>Add on to Lafalum’s #124 above:</p>
<p>business owners who add apostrophes to their name: John Smith and Son’s</p>
<p>My office mate doesn’t just use speaker phone until they pick up. Nope, the entire conversation is on speaker phone. Always. Yep, she’s a lawyer. No offense to lawyers, but I’ve noticed they are particularly bad with this trait.</p>
<p>The biggie for me - people who have to back into their space in a parking lot. Okay, maybe it makes a certain sense if you’re at a concert or some other kind of event where everyone will be leaving at once and it will be difficult to back out of a space. But do you REALLY need to do this at Taco Bell… or at the strip mall where there are 5 other cars in the entire lot? And do you not notice that there are cars waiting while you go through this process?</p>
<p>On another car-related note, the people who stay in a lane that they know is turning into a turn-only lane so that they can force their way into the other lane at the last minute, thus avoiding having to wait their turn in that lane. Of course, that lane wouldn’t back up if so many people weren’t trying to squeeze into it.</p>
<p>EPTR - that parking spot saving would burn me up! They depend on you to be reasonable and not get out of your car, and park yourself in a lawn chair in “their” spot until they leave. When we all get sick of being reasonable, there will be trouble!</p>
<p>Another pet peeve - letting little kids blow out birthday candles when it isn’t their birthday, or even remotely close to being their birthday. Let the birthday person have their special day, and yours will come eventually. We don’t want little junior thinking he can always get what he wants! oy… that feels better. </p>
<p>And when little junior decides to attack the icing and toppings (are we surprised?) year after year, perhaps it’s time to make him keep a certain distance away from the cake until he gets his own piece.</p>
<p>Ha ha! Someone has been to too many kiddie birthday parties! How about the ones that let Junior “help” unwrap the birthday boy or girls gifts. Junior always gets that crazed look in his eyes while he’s trying to make nice being helpful but he’s really burning up because the gifts aren’t for him. That kind of thing never ends well.</p>
<p>I’m beginning to really hate the expression “It is what it is.” So current existence always justifies continuing existence? Fight, you wimp! Change your circumstances, battle for what’s good and right, don’t be such a fatalist.</p>
<p>One thing that just occurred to me…do the places that add the automatic tip to large group bills in restaurants figure the (whatever) percentage before tax? I always tip on the before-tax amount – I am NOT tipping on the tax, too!</p>
<p>CTCC , I have customers that take advantage of our pre-season promotion that we run in the very slow months of our seasonal business ( as in, now ) they expect me to discount the state sales tax and pick my brain about it…I don’t sit there with a pad and paper adding their order up, it is done on my company Quickbooks, so it drives me nuts when people tell me, that my figure doesn’t match theirs…UGH , and they are always the people who spend big $$$$$ on the homes they vacation in.</p>
<p>People who take up more than one parking space because they’re afraid their precious car might get a ding on it.</p>
<p>And not to offend any oversized truck/SVU owners but those mammoth vehicles drive me crazy. They take up more than their fair share of the parking space. They protrude out of their parking space and into the road so much it’s hard to back out when one is parked behind you. And you can’t see around them.</p>
<p>People who post without reading the thread - or at least the entire original post and the last page or so of posts.</p>
<p>People who post about an article without bothering to read the article.</p>
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Sorry, but I don’t understand what you mean. When customers expect you to discount the state sales tax, you mean they expect you to lower it or not charge it at all?</p>
<p>^^ they expect me to take 20% off of sales tax in addition to the service we sell</p>
<p>Say your service is $100 (just to use round numbers). Also let’s say the sales tax is 10%. During the regular season your service is $100 plus 10% sales tax = $110.</p>
<p>During your pre-season promotion say you discount your service 20%, so it is $80 instead of $100. The sales tax (still 10%) would be $8, so the total is now $88. </p>
<p>And some customers want…what? To pay less than 10% sales tax?</p>
<p>exactly :)</p>
<p>I haven’t read through the entire thread so it may have been mentioned, but my no 1 peeve is the general lack of civility and consideration amongst strangers, and the notion that so many people think they are alone in the world.
Loudly yakking on cell phones right beside you in the supermarket, people backing out of parking lot spots without looking, people stopping the car in the middle of the lane in a parking garage to wait for that spot and not going a bit to the side to allow people behind them to pass…on and on.</p>
<p>A good example…that recent gone viral youtube of the lady who fell in the fountain at a mall…security personnel laughed and snickered, as it happened, on seeing the tape, and not a single person in the mall came to her aid.</p>