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Dear Frenchy,


This is not America.


I tip the bin men at Christmas and give them ?20, The window cleaner the same - 50p per window for a tip??? Have you any idea how much that would cost? My house is just enormous! As for the meter man - he should could himself lucky I don't have him flogged - he has marched his muddy boots through my perfect home on more than one occasion. Tip him with the toe of my boot more like.


I think you have more money than sense. Perhaps you should try not to drink so much, and maybe get yourself a part time job wafting about Dulwich picture gallery. You could even try shopping - it is really a wonderful way to use up your excess cash.


DM

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What preposterous nonsense! There's long been a custom for women to tip their hairdressers because, more often than not, their hair has been done by a young woman paid a pittance by the salons' - ahem - madame. Blokes should not tip barbers - ever - it is both unmanly and insulting. The guys - usually self-employed - post a list of charges for various services and if more is expected on top of those charges than that then the carte should be redrafted...


I recall the old (and I do mean old) Jimmy Tarbuck joke - "I went to me barbers for an 'aircut: the sign said "cuts 1/6d, shaves 1/- - so I told 'im the shave me 'ead..."


Tipping! Huh! Hoity-toity poncey southern ways... >:D<

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Try living or visiting the US. It is awful. The 'docents' (guides) even at historical monuments say at the beginning of their spiel 'if you enjoy what you hear, please feel free to offer gratuities'*. On one trip, the bloke on the boat (in which I was meant to be viewing the wonders of the deep through the glass-bottomed hull but ended up feeling like I'd drunk a gallon of castor oil and gin and then been shaken and heated up to 100F) had a suitably ocean-themed fishbowl in his grubby paws waiting for my dollars at the end of my trip. It is a ludicrous tyranny but when in Rome etc!

* another of my very hated words, an unnecessary complication, like 'beverage' instead of 'drink'. Nero

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I don't go for the 'I tip because I know they're low paid workers' thing.

There's a good reason why unskilled jobs are low-paid and its not my job to top-up someone else's pay-packet. That's right.. I'm all heart!


Hairdressers and barbers, however, are neither unskilled nor low-paid. Most of them do just fine.

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