Are gifts a done thing for a first communion?
Yup! Money's good too.
Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - May 04, 2011 3:43:40 pm PDT #6864 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jesse - May 04, 2011 3:50:44 pm PDT #6865 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Are gifts a done thing for a first communion? We just got invited to the next door neighbor's son's a week from Sunday.
My coworker just asked the same thing! Except it's a nephew in her case. The verdict was yes, gifts/money.
Connie Neil - May 04, 2011 3:57:35 pm PDT #6866 of 30001
brillig
For goodness sake, you can't just leave it to the last minute!
The guy across the cubicle wall from me may just achieve an aneurysm. But I am going home.
Amy - May 04, 2011 3:58:10 pm PDT #6867 of 30001
Because books.
Excellent. Thanks, people. My niece and nephew were out of the country when they did theirs, so I had no clue.
amyth - May 04, 2011 4:00:36 pm PDT #6868 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Yay, Perkins, and go Gud!
Sorry about the work stress, Connie and sarameg. I'm in the middle of student move-out, which is our second-busiest week at work (behind student move-in), plus I'm weaning myself off Celexa a tad bit faster than doctor's orders, so I've discovered that I'm prone to WILD mood swings this week. Very unpredictable!
I usually tip 20% for most everything, unless I know the person, or I find them unbearably charming somehow, and then I tip a little more.
meara - May 04, 2011 4:14:29 pm PDT #6869 of 30001
Oh! Tip type question! So, yesterday I got a massage, because I'd "won" an hour gift certificate there at a silent auction. Now, normally I go to spa-type places, and charge by card, and there's a tip line, and I tip 20%ish.
But this place was all "we do medical massage! It's for insurance!" etc etc, though they had a cash price (lower than the insurance one). And of course, I was paying with gift card. In that sort of instance, was I supposed to tip? I didn't, the one time I went and got a massage at a place using my doctor's prescription.
smonster - May 04, 2011 4:14:32 pm PDT #6870 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Uggh. Headache getting worse instead of better. Ibuprofen applied.
megan walker - May 04, 2011 4:18:47 pm PDT #6871 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I usualy tip delivery guy 2-3 bucks. Maybe less if I am paying for delivery, maybe a little more if I making him deliver in miserable weather
Note that it is extremely rare that any delivery charge gets to the delivery person (who usually also pays for their own gas). After baristas, they were the group I most changed my mind about after reading Keep the Change.
In addition to getting really screwed pay-wise, it was clear that you get a real benefit from being a regular good tipper on delivery.
megan walker - May 04, 2011 4:20:41 pm PDT #6872 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Again, according to Keep the Change, you should always tip on the full value of the service, regardless of Groupons, gift certificates, etc.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 04, 2011 4:21:53 pm PDT #6873 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Massages fall into that same area as haircuts where I feel reluctant to tip for the same thing that I'm paying upfront for in the first place. I don't tip my mechanic; he's not providing an additional service beyond the one I'm buying.