From: Ari on
On Sat, 22 May 2010 08:37:29 -0400, gmbeasley(a)mindspring.com wrote:

> I do think there's such a thing as over tipping- especially if the
> country you are in doesn't do tipping. I was told by the wheel chair
> man in Denmark that I should not tip in Denmark. I'd rather be
> thought cheap (which is true) than be thought to be profligate.

Yeah, there is overtipping.

Are you from Denmark? Why would you care what a bunch of Denmarkians
think?
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From: Ari on
On Sat, 22 May 2010 11:43:02 -0400, Joseph Coulter wrote:

> Failure to abide by local custom is a nasty American habit, we tend to
> believe that the world works as we do.

Brother, is that the truth or what. Tough when you are out
empire-building to see through the eyes of the conquered.
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From: Ari on
On Sat, 22 May 2010 09:07:45 -0400, Sandy wrote:

> Thanks Jean, for saying that. I agree. I llearn a lot from John's posts
> as well as the other regulars. Sandy in St. Augustine

Watch out for that Loop Current, Sandy. And the wild dogs of Ponte
Vedra.
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From: gmbeasley on
On Sat, 22 May 2010 11:49:00 -0400, Ari <AriSilverstein(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 22 May 2010 08:37:29 -0400, gmbeasley(a)mindspring.com wrote:
>
>> I do think there's such a thing as over tipping- especially if the
>> country you are in doesn't do tipping. I was told by the wheel chair
>> man in Denmark that I should not tip in Denmark. I'd rather be
>> thought cheap (which is true) than be thought to be profligate.
>
>Yeah, there is overtipping.
>
>Are you from Denmark? Why would you care what a bunch of Denmarkians
>think?

That remark was in general and not just for Denmark. And I think they
are Danes.

From: Ari on
On Sat, 22 May 2010 15:14:48 -0400, gmbeasley(a)mindspring.com wrote:

> On Sat, 22 May 2010 11:49:00 -0400, Ari <AriSilverstein(a)yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 22 May 2010 08:37:29 -0400, gmbeasley(a)mindspring.com wrote:
>>
>>> I do think there's such a thing as over tipping- especially if the
>>> country you are in doesn't do tipping. I was told by the wheel chair
>>> man in Denmark that I should not tip in Denmark. I'd rather be
>>> thought cheap (which is true) than be thought to be profligate.
>>
>>Yeah, there is overtipping.
>>
>>Are you from Denmark? Why would you care what a bunch of Denmarkians
>>think?
>
> That remark was in general and not just for Denmark.

You carrying the whole world's reflection of you on those broad
shoulders?

> And I think they
> are Danes.

My humor was Danish. Grasp it.
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