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What's up VinnyD? You've agreed with me twice in the last 24 hours. Are you feeling alright? ;)

I'll still do it on occasion even outside of New Yorker, lets say if the fare is $12 and I've got a ten and a five. I wouldn't ask for change back. Would you?

No, because it's usually something like $12.20, which means $13 in any case (since cabbies never carry coins), and if you ask for $1 back you sound like a skinflint.

--M.

My word, 48. You couldn't have more perfectly fit my description if I had written your entry. I'm not being aggressively righteous. I'm just tired of people complaining about the US tipping culture. That's what's done. So do it. And shut your moralizing gob while you're at it. I don't think that removal of the tipping culture from the US will improve anything. Amazing how there are so many anglophone experts who seem to "know" otherwise.