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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 791886, member: 19065"]I tended bar for a couple of years during college. Tips were plentiful but rarely interesting. Occasionally, people would give me a $2, or some origami folded note or pass off some foreign note or coin. With my interest in numismatics, I'd smile and tell them I didn't mind, which I didn't, though I needed the cash to spend more so at the time than any novelty foreign piece. Besides an average circulated coin or note wasn't going to do much for either my finances nor collection of coins/notes. At times the embarassed smirk of the tipper leaving a foreign coin or note was kind of like getting no tip at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm surprized <b>illini420</b> hasn't chimed in here yet, he often posts about his "<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t31250/#post723414" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t31250/#post723414">trifecta</a>" tipping.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 791886, member: 19065"]I tended bar for a couple of years during college. Tips were plentiful but rarely interesting. Occasionally, people would give me a $2, or some origami folded note or pass off some foreign note or coin. With my interest in numismatics, I'd smile and tell them I didn't mind, which I didn't, though I needed the cash to spend more so at the time than any novelty foreign piece. Besides an average circulated coin or note wasn't going to do much for either my finances nor collection of coins/notes. At times the embarassed smirk of the tipper leaving a foreign coin or note was kind of like getting no tip at all. I'm surprized [B]illini420[/B] hasn't chimed in here yet, he often posts about his "[URL="http://www.cointalk.com/t31250/#post723414"]trifecta[/URL]" tipping.[/QUOTE]
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