tipping your bartender...

[Dole]

First time I went to 'Merica, the bar tender in the first bar we went to came and spoke to us after a few beers and said ' You're English arent you?' and we said 'er...yes?' -he said he knew we were because we weren't tipping. I apologised for our mistake and smiled warmly as I left some counterfeit english notes in a small tray near him.


Interestingly (or perhaps boringly), we don't tend to tip bar staff in the UK, mainly because they make more money than their yankee counterparts. HOWEVER, we do tip taxi drivers, barbers, chimney sweeps, abortionists, priests etc