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Rep Retirement Lodge 118: BoredboredboredBORED

Rep Retirement Lodge 118: BoredboredboredBORED

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bostonewe said:
One of the T stations is flooded...this does not bode well for my apartment. :(
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Don't you people have storm sewers out there?

As a thank you to us soccer managers the soccer Club is having a party with free food/wine/beer at the muni golf course. I have to go out of town on business (to Iowa yet) that day and won't be back till the party is over. :mad:
 
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Afternoon Lodge...

Apparently, they're changing my weekend at work. Not happy about that at the moment. I liked who was on my weekend. :(
 
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Sloe Gin said:
Also, regarding tipping at a bar. If your get change, do not leave quarters on the bar as a tip. That will ensure your drink the next time is of ****ty quality. Leave a dollar per beer, dollar per mixed drink, and at least two-three bucks for a round of shots. Also, pre-tip your bartender at the beginning of the night and you will be taken care of.
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I usually leave them the **** quarters and an extra dollar, because I don't want to have 75 quarters in my pocket at the end of the night. :p
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I usually leave them the **** quarters and an extra dollar, because I don't want to have 75 quarters in my pocket at the end of the night. :p
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I ususally take the quarters and use them throughout the night so I don't have 75 quarters in my pocket at the end...
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I usually leave them the **** quarters and an extra dollar, because I don't want to have 75 quarters in my pocket at the end of the night. :p
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yeah... they get a dollar and the change tip for my beer.;)
 
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i think girl's birthday is today. she has the boys at hockey right now so i cooked her dinner. four lobsters (of which i shredded away the shells and pulled the meat). nine ears of corn and two lbs of melted butter.

(i'm hoping she asks me to share some of that corn!!)

bostonewe said:
One of the T stations is flooded...this does not bode well for my apartment. :(
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128 was quite crowded going home. i stayed away from the river roads and took the pike west before going north and getting on the rt2 expressway west (:D ).
 
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bostonewe said:
Torrential downpour out there, but that will not deter me from celebratory beer tonight. Celebrating the submission of applications to grad school and the end of BC summer class - and being 98% done with moving.
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*thumbs up*

bostonewe said:
One of the T stations is flooded...this does not bode well for my apartment. :(
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Well, not much in your apartment to get ruined...
 
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For restaurants, my standard is 20% or so. For Old Chicago NFL Sundays, it's 25-30%: we get to "own" at least one tv of the 6 main ones, usually two, meaning the manager/whoever won't change the channel without consulting with us first. And there are times we get to choose every game on tv, and which tv shows what game.:D

For bars: buck a beer.

Mixed drinks: say the drink costs $5.25. I'll leave the $1.75 I get in change for a tip. For the second drink, I'll just leave a buck. Third drink, back to the $1.75. So on and so on. Never had a bartender stupid enough to not figure out that it's easier to leave all the money on the bar or just take the coins, instead of leaving 25% every time or whatever.
 
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Scarlet said:
Well, 20% is my standard. 20% of $41 is $8.20. Added to a $41 is $49.20. No one ever leaves an exact like that, so rounding up to $50 to me, well, that's standard. You also left out the tax, so if the $41 was face value for what you ate and drank, then you wound up tipping less than 20%, unless you don't base your tip amount on the full bill, just the non-taxed version. Which is another question all together - what do you tip on?

aparch, apparently you've had some bad experiences in restaurants. We've all had them and I've changed my tip accordingly based on them. My point was I feel qualfying a tip as a "healthy" tip when it was a pretty standard 20% was a misnomer.
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bigblue_dl said:
I usually look at how much the food costs, tip around 20% for that, plus a buck a drink on top of it. I consider that a pretty good tip, because most of the people I know usually only tip 10-15%.
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when i go to the pourhouse for lunch i get a sangy (usually 6.45) that comes with fries and diet coke. i sit and the bar and watch espn and surf the iphone. the girls are cute and they fill up my diet coke rather liberally. the bill comes and it's around 9.63. if i have singles i leave $14. if i don't i leave $15. cause to me that is what the lunch is worth. if they only happen to charge me 9.63 including tax, she benefits.
 
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bostonewe said:
We do, but it's been raining quite hard.

Scarlet - it shouldn't effect you're commute unless you're heading to BU tonight. (Boylston Station)
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I take the Orange line so it wouldn't have affected me either way. Left the office right at 5pm. OK, 5:10-ish. The heavy rain had just ended. And, as it's Thursday, went right across the street for my Thursday beverage. Had two martinis, which were not lemon drops. Now, either hottie bartender is not back to full speed work mode after being on vacation the last two weeks, or this martini didn't have nearly as much alcohol as the lemon drops he usually makes, but I am barely buzzed. We were there a while, just got home about a half hour ago. It's still pretty muggy out. Made for an uncomfortable ride home. I thought the rain was supposed to bring the drier air.

No work tomorrow - yay! And I leave for San Francisco on Sunday for a work trip.
 
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Scarlet said:
I take the Orange line so it wouldn't have affected me either way. Left the office right at 5pm. OK, 5:10-ish. The heavy rain had just ended. And, as it's Thursday, went right across the street for my Thursday beverage. Had two martinis, which were not lemon drops. Now, either hottie bartender is not back to full speed work mode after being on vacation the last two weeks, or this martini didn't have nearly as much alcohol as the lemon drops he usually makes, but I am barely buzzed. We were there a while, just got home about a half hour ago. It's still pretty muggy out. Made for an uncomfortable ride home. I thought the rain was supposed to bring the drier air.

No work tomorrow - yay! And I leave for San Francisco on Sunday for a work trip.
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How did my interpretation on how your company get screwed over in overbilling from the printer work out?

Who would have thunk that beer, peach vodka (it was free) + V8 Tropical Splash would have such great effect after a stressed out week!?
 
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bigblue_dl said:
I usually leave them the **** quarters and an extra dollar, because I don't want to have 75 quarters in my pocket at the end of the night. :p
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that works...just don't be a cheap *ker is what I'm getting at.

Brenthoven said:
Mixed drinks: say the drink costs $5.25. I'll leave the $1.75 I get in change for a tip. For the second drink, I'll just leave a buck. Third drink, back to the $1.75. So on and so on. Never had a bartender stupid enough to not figure out that it's easier to leave all the money on the bar or just take the coins, instead of leaving 25% every time or whatever.
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no bartender in the world should sit there and wonder if you gave them X percent. Like I said, when I was bartending back in the day, if you left a buck a beer, a buck a mixed drink, a few bucks for shots, and something extra at the end of the night, I was more then happy with your business and would make sure that next time you came in, you got more then compensated.

Now, there was a time I gave the mat shot to a 21 year old...:D :D :D
 
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bostonewe said:
Torrential downpour out there, but that will not deter me from celebratory beer tonight. Celebrating the submission of applications to grad school and the end of BC summer class - and being 98% done with moving.
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Congrats! I'll have a drink too... why not? Life is looking up right now...
 
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