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Religious diner leaves REAL tip on a bogus $10 note for waiter: ''Nothing like hiding behind the Bible to camouflage your stinginess' | Mail Online

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A crisp $10 note left by a diner is a welcome sight for any server.
But when one waiter went to pick up one such note left tucked under a customer's plate recently, he was outraged to find it was not cash but instead a 'real tip' on a bogus $10 note.
'Some things are better than money' it said on the back, 'like your eternal salvation that was brought and paid for by Jesus going to the cross.'

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King Dave

Ripping off the working community for bacon and eggs , how pathetic? I am sure these "cheap" Christians have already forgiven themselves of their latest crime spree.

  • 13 votes
Reply#1 - Sun Dec 11, 2011 7:32 PM EST
ERich-356044

The fact that this was even printed as something to give instead of a tip is quite malicious.

The christians that do this are slime. Period.

  • 8 votes
#1.1 - Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:28 AM EST
ngp256

How cheap, and rude. >:( wow I cannot believe someone would do this, what a vile slimeball. If it was a pastor or a rev. doing this Id be even MORE furious, esp since he's avoiding paying taxes. ugh! what a dirty rotten cheapskate. I always tip well for good service, and unless the service was horrible, I always tip.

  • 8 votes
#1.2 - Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:44 AM EST
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Grisham

LMAO. That's like the worlds biggest slap in the face!

Turning the world atheist, one tip at a time.

  • 14 votes
Reply#2 - Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:12 PM EST
Kyle-2710718

Turning the world atheist, one tip at a time.

Heh! And they probably don't even realize they're doing it!

I'll bet the schmuck who left the fake $10.00 tip actually thought he was doing a good thing.

Spreading the word & all that nonsense.

The waiter, who makes $2.65 basic pay an hour, did not take well to getting the 'advice' and posted photographs of the scene to the social newspaper Reddit.

In it he added: 'P.S. I have never been more atheist.'

$2.65 an hour should be a crime!

They should at least get minimum wage, plus any tips they earn.

  • 11 votes
#2.1 - Sun Dec 11, 2011 9:17 PM EST
Baron von Steuben

I'll bet the schmuck who left the fake $10.00 tip actually thought he was doing a good thing.

Anything that turns the mind away from dogma opens it to reason. That seems like a good thing to me :)

As far as the 2.65, I've never heard of a waiter having much higher base pay, they work for the tips. I always try to remember that.

  • 6 votes
#2.2 - Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:56 AM EST
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gmross

Just goes to show, were they put their values.

  • 5 votes
Reply#3 - Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:15 PM EST
WaltUU

It really is a matter of values: Some people blindly live for some self-satisfying fantasy of what comes after this life, and therefore defile the world we live in. They have values, but they are anti-world values - values that cosset callous disregard for what's here-and-now, indurate to the impact of their self-satisfying behaviors on others.

  • 7 votes
#3.1 - Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:48 AM EST
gmross

Too true Walt.

  • 3 votes
#3.2 - Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:03 PM EST
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sky dog

That crap bill has been around since at least the early 80's. I used to find them dropped all over the ATL airport.

However, it is a new low to use it as a stealth tip dodger.

  • 7 votes
Reply#4 - Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:58 PM EST
neenie1991

I liked this comment on the article's comments section:

well the solution is simple, mosey on down to the local church on Sunday and deposit it back in the collection plate, see if the can survive on it

That would solve it damn quick.


  • 11 votes
Reply#5 - Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:00 AM EST
NotKidding

Perfect solution.

See how they like worthless tracts as payment for their services. They might see it for the cheap, deceptive and slimey practice that it really is, and stop deluding themselves that they are doing anything remotely helpful or good.

  • 8 votes
#5.1 - Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:01 AM EST
ngp256

Im so going to get a bunch of these, and attend a church service, and drop em in offering plate.

  • 8 votes
#5.2 - Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:46 AM EST
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