美国牧师拒付小费的理由

雅虎今日新闻(节译)：

美国一位牧师在就餐后拒付小费。在账单收据上，他这样写道，我给上帝只奉献10%(博主注解：基督徒要什一奉献，即奉献收入的十分之一，10%)，凭什么要付你18%？这位牧师依此从账单上划去了应付的小费(大约六美元)，同时也拒付另外一种额外的小费(additional tip)。

在餐馆账单上留言，似乎成了美国餐馆的流行趋势。在美国北卡的一家餐馆，有一天一位晚产(overdue)的孕妇和丈夫前去就餐。等到结账时，餐馆经理在孕妇的付费处留言道，祝准妈妈好运(MOM 2 BEE GOOD LUC).(博主注解：这个留言是下面几个字的简写mom to be good luck，mom to be 意为未来的妈妈，准妈妈)，并免去了(comp)她的账单。这位孕妇，免费吃了一顿饭!

博主感慨：细微处见人品，简单的一顿饭可送温暖。

新闻全文：

A man claiming to be a pastor apparently tried to stiff a waiter on a tip, explaining that his work for God absolved him of having to leave one.

A photo of the receipt, posted to Reddit.com, shows a bill for $34.93 with an automatic 18 percent gratuity (or $6.29) added above a blank space for an additional tip.

"I give God 10%," the diner wrote on the receipt, scratching out the automatic tip. "Why do you get 18?" He then wrote "Pastor" above his signature, and an emphatic "0" where the additional tip would be. (The automatic gratuity, however, had already been added to the total.)

The Reddit user who submitted the image explained in the comments section that the receipt was part of a total bill for a party of 20, which is why the gratuity was automatically added.

“Parties up to eight ... may tip whatever they’d like, but larger parties receive an automatic gratuity," the server wrote. "It’s in the computer, it’s not something I do.”

The server added: “They had no problem with my service, and told me I was great. They just didn’t want to pay when the time came.”

Scribbling notes on receipts has become something of a trend. Earlier this month, the manager of a North Carolina Red Robin surprised an overdue pregnant woman by comping her meal.

“Once seated, a manager came up to us and started talking,” the woman's husband told Consumerist. “He was extremely friendly and jokingly asked my wife if this was her last meal before heading to the hospital."

When the check came, a note from the manager next to her portion of the bill read: "MOM 2 BEE GOOD LUC."

“It was a pleasant surprise and made my tired-of-being-pregnant wife a little more cheery," the man said.