So far, today has been a totally normal day, with average tips and usual traffic, nothing at all out of the ordinary. I’m on autopilot for one of the last deliveries of the day: just one pizza to a regular apartment, maybe half a mile from the store.
The customer pays by card; we have mobile card payment machines. He hands me the credit card slip back with just the signature, no tip.
I briefly consider asking him to “fill out the total” (I almost always do when they leave it blank) but decide to just let it slide since it’s the end of the day and I’m doing okay.
Customer: “Hold up. Can y’all take tips?”
Me: “Uh, yeah, man. You can write it in or whatever; we get it all.”
Customer: “Hold up.”
He comes back and hands me a pile of bills. I see a FIFTY, a twenty, and a one. At first, I just shoot him a look like, “Nah, man, you already paid, remember?”, but I can see by his face that he knows what he’s doing. I’m not sure what made it out of my mouth, as I am kinda in shock.
Me: “Wha…? Seriously? You sure?”
Customer: Reassuringly “That’s all for you, man.”
I got back in my car and realized it was THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE DOLLARS! I was able to take my mom out somewhere nice for Mother’s Day, AND I paid off my credit card.
Tipped To Be Huge
So far, today has been a totally normal day, with average tips and usual traffic, nothing at all out of the ordinary. I’m on autopilot for one of the last deliveries of the day: just one pizza to a regular apartment, maybe half a mile from the store.
The customer pays by card; we have mobile card payment machines. He hands me the credit card slip back with just the signature, no tip.
I briefly consider asking him to “fill out the total” (I almost always do when they leave it blank) but decide to just let it slide since it’s the end of the day and I’m doing okay.
Customer: “Hold up. Can y’all take tips?”
Me: “Uh, yeah, man. You can write it in or whatever; we get it all.”
Customer: “Hold up.”
He comes back and hands me a pile of bills. I see a FIFTY, a twenty, and a one. At first, I just shoot him a look like, “Nah, man, you already paid, remember?”, but I can see by his face that he knows what he’s doing. I’m not sure what made it out of my mouth, as I am kinda in shock.
Me: “Wha…? Seriously? You sure?”
Customer: Reassuringly “That’s all for you, man.”
I got back in my car and realized it was THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE DOLLARS! I was able to take my mom out somewhere nice for Mother’s Day, AND I paid off my credit card.
NOT my story.