Patty is home, and it's been super New York-y already: the other people in Terminal 8 were so excited to see their loved-ones they were blocking folks from getting out; the cab said his credit card thing was broken; the sound of the heating pipes woke us up; and there was some seriously creepy bird action this morning. Thumbs up.
On splitting the check. I understand the complaint. I don't understand why it's necessary. I've almost NEVER run into this, though. We all figure out what we owe, chuck it in, and since I've been over the age of about 25, we've usually had too much money, not too little.
Wow, that's really bizarre. Regardless of the size of the group or the cost of the restaurant, I've seen only two ways to handle this - if everyone or almost everyone had approximately the same thing for the same cost, then we figure out how much anyone who ordered less cost and split the rest or (more commonly) we simply divide it all up. This is even easier these days, since anyone with a good phone always has a calculator on hand.
A bill has been introduced in California to add historical contributions of LGBT people to school textbooks.
That's awesome news, given that CA is the other big textbook market than TX, it's likely that we'll soon see LGBT friendly textbooks appearing in every state not run by reactionary bigots.
I wonder if our relative lack of trouble with the check thing (both over here and in rm's vicinity) is because being a creative type in a social circle of creative types means that many of your compatriots have at least a passing familiarity with the service industry.
I always find there's a correlation between degree of proximity to the service industry (actively work in > once worked in > know someone who does > know someone who has, and this includes sex industry as well as waiters: they're all tip-reliant professions) and understanding of how to actually pay tips, etc.
In California, and in DC, I have seen the "let's just split it evenly" thing more often than in Portland, presumably because people generally have more spare cash. I also saw my gaming crowd split the bill evenly in restaurants during the dot com boom (and had to annoy people by opting out, since I didn't have a dot com boom job) and then start doing that less during the crash.
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Date: 2010-12-15 08:55 pm (UTC)Wow, that's really bizarre. Regardless of the size of the group or the cost of the restaurant, I've seen only two ways to handle this - if everyone or almost everyone had approximately the same thing for the same cost, then we figure out how much anyone who ordered less cost and split the rest or (more commonly) we simply divide it all up. This is even easier these days, since anyone with a good phone always has a calculator on hand.
A bill has been introduced in California to add historical contributions of LGBT people to school textbooks.
That's awesome news, given that CA is the other big textbook market than TX, it's likely that we'll soon see LGBT friendly textbooks appearing in every state not run by reactionary bigots.
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Date: 2010-12-16 08:47 am (UTC)I always find there's a correlation between degree of proximity to the service industry (actively work in > once worked in > know someone who does > know someone who has, and this includes sex industry as well as waiters: they're all tip-reliant professions) and understanding of how to actually pay tips, etc.
In California, and in DC, I have seen the "let's just split it evenly" thing more often than in Portland, presumably because people generally have more spare cash. I also saw my gaming crowd split the bill evenly in restaurants during the dot com boom (and had to annoy people by opting out, since I didn't have a dot com boom job) and then start doing that less during the crash.