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$15 tip?!?
Backstory.. I deliver pizza. Enough backstory.
Tonight I took a delivery to an apartment complex that's quite literally less than a block away. Another driver saw the address when my ticket printed out, he assured me I could get a $5-7 tip. Of course, that had me going
"awesome". The order was $24 and change (basically, $25).
It'd been 13 minutes since he'd placed the order when I left with it - and it took all of 3 minutes to get to my car, drive there, park, get out, and walk to his door.
He opens it - first thing I notice is the cloud of marijuana smoke drifting out, second is his red eyes. I'm already thinking "oh awesome, stoners always tip good, A. was right!". I ask him how his night's going, he replies "excellent!", and I said something along the lines of "smells like it!" and grinned. He laughs, hands me 2 folded bills and says keep the change, tells me to have a good night and closes the door. I unfold them expecting a $10 and a $20.
It was 2 $20s. I'm going "wtf?" at that point, I was expecting a $5 tip from what the other driver told me... not $15.
I knock on the door again, he answers, I say "Hey I know you said keep the change, but... you know you gave me $40 right?". He grins and says "Yeah I know, $15 tip - you're cool man, and you got here fast. Keep it!" I'm guessing it had a bit to do with my comment about the smell and a bit to do with my appearance (I look like a stereotypical stoner, long hair, etc), and how fast it got there.
Stoners usually tend to tip pretty good, at least in my delivery area. But damn, $15?!
His address is now burned into my eyes forever - at least, he'll always get his order damn quick when I'm around.
edit: I should add - when I got back to the store the other driver asked me "So did you get $5 from him?".
My deadpan response was "No, $15 and a contact high."
He laughed at the bit about the contact high, but was kinda pissed that he didn't get that $15 tip (he'd just gotten $0.00 on his last delivery).
Tonight I took a delivery to an apartment complex that's quite literally less than a block away. Another driver saw the address when my ticket printed out, he assured me I could get a $5-7 tip. Of course, that had me going
"awesome". The order was $24 and change (basically, $25).It'd been 13 minutes since he'd placed the order when I left with it - and it took all of 3 minutes to get to my car, drive there, park, get out, and walk to his door.
He opens it - first thing I notice is the cloud of marijuana smoke drifting out, second is his red eyes. I'm already thinking "oh awesome, stoners always tip good, A. was right!". I ask him how his night's going, he replies "excellent!", and I said something along the lines of "smells like it!" and grinned. He laughs, hands me 2 folded bills and says keep the change, tells me to have a good night and closes the door. I unfold them expecting a $10 and a $20.
It was 2 $20s. I'm going "wtf?" at that point, I was expecting a $5 tip from what the other driver told me... not $15.
I knock on the door again, he answers, I say "Hey I know you said keep the change, but... you know you gave me $40 right?". He grins and says "Yeah I know, $15 tip - you're cool man, and you got here fast. Keep it!" I'm guessing it had a bit to do with my comment about the smell and a bit to do with my appearance (I look like a stereotypical stoner, long hair, etc), and how fast it got there.
Stoners usually tend to tip pretty good, at least in my delivery area. But damn, $15?!
His address is now burned into my eyes forever - at least, he'll always get his order damn quick when I'm around.
edit: I should add - when I got back to the store the other driver asked me "So did you get $5 from him?".
My deadpan response was "No, $15 and a contact high."
He laughed at the bit about the contact high, but was kinda pissed that he didn't get that $15 tip (he'd just gotten $0.00 on his last delivery).
I asked him if he was sure he wanted to give me $30, he said "Hey we all work for tips here" (college age crowd in there, so...).
I could pay my house off with that.
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