Do you tip your barber?

Penge Eagle said:
I never have as as I can't see the benefit (though I always tip in restaurants). Am I being tight or just logical?
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i generally don't tip in bars/restaurants. Especially if the waitress is beautiful. Having worked such jobs as a student, i saw the girls getting triple or quadruple the tips of the lads - often from lusty drunken men.

Giving a lady a tenner for carrying a plate from kitchen to table ? feckoff.

Before you call me a miser, i will often give a generous tip. Certainly where the service was good and/or i wish to curry favour for when i will need them again. Car mechanics, plumbers, electricians etc.
 
I tip my barber about 1 in 3 visits.

I've been going to him for nearly 10 years now, by appointment only.

The appointments are for 25 minutes, which these days mean we can talk football for 20 minutes after he's skillfully rearranged what remains of a once impressive mane.

Re Turkish barbers, I have been told that from them '' something for the weekend '' now refers to something you stick up your nose, not on your dick....( although I'm sure the boy Brand has done that too )
 
NEILLO said:
I tip my barber about 1 in 3 visits.

I've been going to him for nearly 10 years now, by appointment only.

The appointments are for 25 minutes, which these days mean we can talk football for 20 minutes after he's skillfully rearranged what remains of a once impressive mane.

Re Turkish barbers, I have been told that from them '' something for the weekend '' now refers to something you stick up your nose, not on your dick....( although I'm sure the boy Brand has done that too )
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I have not heard these words from a barber for many a year.
I have no recollection of responding that I would be delighted to purchase such items.
 
Barbers are a thing of the past for me. Having lost all my hair twice after two courses of chemo, I tend to leave what grows now as long as I can before my wife grumbles, then I take the scissors to it myself.
 
When I had hair on my head, I tipped my barber.

When I had a wet shave, I was always thankful that I didn't have my throat slit. So I tipped. 🙂
 
I recall visiting a 'Barber Shop' and at the end of my tonsorial trim, he asked me "Would you like some product in your hair ?".
In bygone days the barber used to ask "Would you like some Brylcreem ?" or "Silvikrin hair oil ?".
For avoidance of doubt I don't have my head of hair oiled at the 'Barbers'.
 
Yes like others have said give them the change, £18.00 haircut and give them a £20.00 note and keep the change.

Changing tack slightly and the first time i have had this option, was to tip a bar person for puring me a pint last week, is this normal now?, it was in London and never had that before, i declined!!
 
Buckspalace said:
the first time i have had this option, was to tip a bar person for puring me a pint last week, is this normal now?, it was in London and never had that before, i declined!!
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whenever presented with a small electronic screen asking for a tip, i always decline.
however i have a suggestion for the software company. The current options are....20%, 10%, no tip.....there was no option called 'feck off'
 
PalazioVecchio said:
whenever presented with a small electronic screen asking for a tip, i always decline.
however i have a suggestion for the software company. The current options are....20%, 10%, no tip.....there was no option called 'feck off'
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There's an episode of X-Files where Mulder doesn't tip some robot in a restaurant and then all of technology comes after him.

I got presented by one of these when a bloke in a London pub went to the fridge to get me a £5.15 bottle of Becks Blue (lager infused fizzy pop). I almost slung the machine at him but remembered he had no control over it.
 
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