Herman

Tipping in America has become a huge joke. We tip as if it were something manditory in our culture. We are ridiculed or at a minimum thought ill of if we fail to tip. Then, you post articles like the one about the bellman tipping that truly shows what fools Americans have become. One should tip ONLY according to ones own pleasure. Not for the pleasure of the service provider and NEVER on some percentage basis established not by the tipper but by the tippee. Americans will gratuitously give some five Billion dollars in tips this year. Surely that’s a nice number. But to be at a point where horrible service deserves the same tip as excellent service. Well, we must have lost touch with reality.