Hey this was the best blog ever, now use that to pay your rent

"Hey, thanks for the service, it's the best we've ever had!" Oh by the way, here's a nice 5% tip, but I figure with the verbal tip, I've got my rent covered for the next 7 months. Yay me! No, but really, what is up with verbal tipping, I can't use that for anything, usually I get to pay for the verbal tip that you left me to make up for your cheap ass not tipping the proper amount, even though it was "the best service ever." I really wish I could take them to my landlord and use it towards rent, hell I would probably put it into my 401k also, but really there is nothing I can do with it, and if it was in fact the best service you ever had, which I really doubt, then prove it with a tip, I'm not saying give me a huge tip or something unheard of, just show that I was worth the 18% I aim for. I work in an industry where I make my money off of people leaving me money, I still get minimum wage, but I work 20 hours a week, now do the math, hell most teenagers who work at malls who have wages higher than minimum make more than I do excluding tips! Verbal tipping doesn't help, I can't go to the auto mechanic and tell him I love what he did with my brakes, because no one ever made them stop my car like that before, and expect to get part of the payment knocked off because he got a verbal tip. Sure, some of you who don't work in the food industry are probably saying what the hell requires me to tip you, it shouldn't be expected, yes, you are right, but it's become so common place that the government requires servers to claim a minimum even if they didn't make it! On top of that you have to realize that by law I am required to tip out other members of the staff, so I actually lose part of the money I make to other people, so that 5% tip I got, practically all but about $1 went to someone else! Oh by the way, I'm not bitter.