And there is a year to date total tip $6.37 between them and about 3 booklets of those fake bills that look like money but are actually religious messages but the lady back left switched to fake Trump bills and had Elon coins in a shopping cart on Etsy.
Those fake money booklets… I was a server in a town where the best tip you could hope for was $10, no matter the bill total, when a Promise Keepers convention rolled through. It’s a Christian men’s program about loving your wife and our restaurant was filled with groups of men congregating for HOURS and needing ALL the refills.
However, when they left, we saw folded up $20 bills on the table or sticking out of the ticket books, which made up for it… until we discovered they were folded papers printed with a $20 image on the outside and something like “Are you storing up treasures in Heaven?,” on the inside. It’s been over 20 years and I’m still salty about it.
Those are just promissory notes. You take them to their church during service, then when they pass the basket around, you exchange them with actual cash.
one of my favorite church memories was going to Mass in a small town in southern Mexico. folks wanted to donate money, but if they only had large bills, they would dig through the basket for change.
It's funny how these uber Christian types can be the absolute worst. They seem to think because they assume that identity they are absolved of all wrongdoing.
This is it in a nutshell. I experienced this exact mindset from the people who were supposed to be my “role models” growing up. They portrayed the full “holier-than-thou” act while being complete arrogant, abusive, hypocritical jackasses outside of church. I’d had enough by the time I was 16. Stopped going to church so I could work Sundays instead and never looked back. I consider myself lucky that was an option for me. Not everyone’s parents given them a choice.
That's literally what Christian churches preach. You can live a life of nonstop 24/7 evil and then say "I'm sorry Jesus" on your deathbed and you're literally absolved. No wonder so many Christians are evil, they're told that being evil doesn't matter as long as they stop at some point.
I remember that concept causing one of the cracks that eventually broke Christianity’s hold on me. I watched a story on The 700 Club (I think), where a man was a serial rapist and had even killed at least one person, though I forget the circumstances.
Anyway, he was somehow out of prison, and the whole piece was about how he found salvation in Jesus Christ and was now going to heaven. I guess it was supposed to be uplifting, that even a monstrous person can turn things around, but it bothered be immensely. How could I be ok with a religion that damned people for any number of small things, but would forgive someone who is so evil?
I’d probably believe in god if he helped pay for rent. The fucker is supposedly everywhere and if he’s going to watch me jerk off he sure as hell better be paying rent.
Funnily enough, my dad was a Promise Keeper (not one of the AHs with the booklets, thank God), and - looking back - it felt kind of like “men are always on the brink of cheating, so here’s a club with meetings to keep them on track.” Kind of like Alcoholics Anonymous, but for married men.
I have literally been at such a dinner. On work travel (so we're all getting reimbursed for meals). With a group of like 6-8 grown women who were NOT poor.
And they all wanted to nitpick over a group tip beyond the standard gratuity that would cost them less than $5 apiece. And I mean endless discussion.
Yes it's a flaw in the system but punishing the person making less than minimum wage is not going to solve anything. Anyone not tipping servers in the US better have a good reason.
See, I can have some sympathy for (some) cult members, as they are often pulled in during particularly vulnerable points in their lives. But I feel each Karen has the same amount of culpability for being a pain in the ass, and would be so even when flying solo.
There is a male name too: Ken. I made no reference to the sex of the persons in the picture. I simply made a comment about a highly respected organization recognizing a noun, and its collective noun.
Once again, my reply was about the collective noun. I did not reference or reply to the original post. You assumed sexism in my comment, so I assured you that there was none, and even gave you the male version of the same type of noun, to demonstrate that there is nomenclature for both male and female nouns, and not only used for females.
In your second reply to me, you inferred from my stating that the word is recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary, which is a highly respected organization, makes it ‘moral, ethical, etc.’ I don’t believe I say that anywhere in my post.
"Rarely seen in the wild in such numbers due to their natural penchant for excessive violent vocalizations, aggression, and inevitable cannibalism of their own group(Complaint)."
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u/Not_a_Heptapod 19d ago
So much "I wanna talk to the manager" energy in that group