I hear many mothers speak to their children in the third person. My wife and stepdaughter do it all the time to the kids. "Come to Grandma" not "come to me", "Give mommy the stick", Not "give me the stick".
See if you can borrow a charging cord from someone else to make sure it's the cord and not the power supply in your laptop. I spent six hours tearing my laptop apart to replace the power supply and it turned out that my charging cord was dead.
I've been to two cons, planning on going to another one in September. If you can afford it, get a VIP package. That will get you onto the con floor earlier and give you priority seating in panels. You'll also have priority for photo ops and autographs.
They are crowded, but everybody is generally fairly … Read more
I have most of my cash in my wallet. I only have 20$ in my phone case.
I have a wallet so it's neatly folded and organized. I don't normally carry paper money however. I almost exclusively use my debit card.
I rarely keep cash. Now it's easier with Android and Apple pay.
Credit card = hacked, broke. Cash (if you don't wave it around and ask to be murdered) = safe
And android/apple pay are SO SO SO easy to hack. I did it on my own experiment as I would never take someone else's money (i know how it feels when you almost broke and … Read more
I have always preferred a pocket watch to a wrist watch, partly because the Baby Ben pocket watch sold for $1.50 and a Timex wrist watch cost $9.99. They stopped making both about 40 years ago. Adjusting for inflation, the Baby Ben would cost about $30 now and the Timex about $100.
Tipping is a ridiculous custom anyway. It's just a way for businesses to cheap out and pass the costs of business on to the customer rather than actually paying their people a living wage. You don't see tipping in most of Europe and the developed Asian nations, because they simply pay waitstaff and similar personnel … Read more
This whole tip thing is a farce. Employers reduce wages because they expect customers to tip, waiters get rude if the tip is inadequate, and customers feel like it is a violation of a contract to be coerced into paying more than the advertised price.
As a customer who always goes to a restaurant wanting to leave a huge tip. I base my tip on the service I receive from my server. If by chance the chef makes a mistake or just does a bad job, that doesn't effect the amount of tip I will leave. By the same … Read more
As a former server, they absolutely should be able to keep their own tips. All of them. That's certainly what the customer expects. As a customer I leave the tip specifically for my wait person for good service, NOT for the entire staff who never waited on me. And its waitstaff that get ripped off … Read more
In a sit down restaurant, keep your own. That way those that work hard to get them keep them and those that slack don't get money from other's hard work. Some place like a coffee shop they should be split. The person at the register is receiving the tips but the barista is doing all … Read more
Mrs Didge doesn't let me have any paper money of my own, but back in my single days I used to keep it in a wallet. Keeping it loose is asking to lose it.
But my trusty credit card never leaves home without me. :)
Mrs Didge doesn't let me have any paper money of my own, but back in my single days I used to keep it in a wallet. Keeping it loose is asking to lose it.
But my trusty credit card never leaves home without me. :)
Personally I think tipping needs to be abolished all together, make the owners pay their workers a fair wage.... I go to a restaurant and drop $50+ then have to pay the wait staff on top of that so that the owner can rake in more money? Many owners will also take *their* cut of … Read more
Personally I think tipping needs to be abolished all together, make the owners pay their workers a fair wage.... I go to a restaurant and drop $50+ then have to pay the wait staff on top of that so that the owner can rake in more money? Many owners will also take *their* cut of … Read more
