Fun With Tipping

The Groupon Guide to: Tipping

Tipping can be confusing: for instance, children are not expected to tip their parents, but parents are expected to tip their children (it’s called an "allowance"). Here's a guide to proper tipping:

• Waiters should be tipped 20% of your meal's cost or left 20% of your meal.
• At fancy hotels, bellhops must be allowed to take an item of their choice from any of your bags.
• In addition to getting a free mansion, mayors must be tipped a dollar amount equivalent to everyone in town's phone number added up and multiplied by two.
• Tip your wedding DJ the surprise of a lifetime—it was his wedding all along!
• Your hairstylist's tip should be $5 more than the price of the cut, plus all your loose hair woven into a baby blanket.
• Your stuntman should be tipped over a railing! And then tipped the height of the railing in dollars.
• Not technically a tip, but you owe your postman 10% of any money that he delivers.
• Doctors should be tipped all the cans of pumpkin-pie filling you can spare.
• A wife who sells her beautiful hair to buy you a pocket-watch chain should be tipped one ironic comb and one copy of O. Henry's short stories to make sure this never happens again.
• Tip yourself a whole day of relaxation—you deserve it. Also, keep any money you might normally give to charity.