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If more people would learn how to read(to find the word SEARCH) and also learn how to peck(to type the word TIPPING) in the box.......
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If more people would learn how to read(to find the word SEARCH) and also learn how to peck(to type the word TIPPING) in the box.......
2nd your post re Ham MasonWhere are you diving? In Mexico or the Bahamas, there are a lot of dive hands that take the bus to the boat and go home to the most humble dwelling. If they provide useful and friendly service, they get a good tip.
Often in Florida, the dive master is a guy or gal with a good first income that got into it for a hobby. Live near the boat? Be a dive master and dive free! I feel less compelled to tip a Mercedes owner who claims to "dive for drinking money".
One man always gets the tip. Ham at Jupiter Dive is a retired teacher and often presents a lesson on the marine life we expect to see on that trip. He even has a little blackboard. He has inspired my kid to learn and investigate the ocean. A guy like that is solid gold.
Thanks, Ham.
Don't agree at all - traveled all over the US and never saw a "No Tipping" sign in a res't in Alabama, Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa, or any place outside of the north east - don't "like" tipping" and wish the system were otherwise, but as long as it is, what are you going to do - stiff the waiter, barber, etc?I've never tipped a DM. Never even heard of it. Tipping a mechanic is insane! You go in for an alternator swap and he charges you the book rate of 4 hours labor. It takes him 30 minutes to do the repair and he bills you for $70 an hour labor. I think in the north eastern US tipping is more common. In the vast majority of the country it is not.
If they ignore you, don't help with your gear, then I ignore them.
Don't agree at all - traveled all over the US and never saw a "No Tipping" sign in a res't in Alabama, Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa, or any place outside of the north east - <snip>