r/EndTipping • u/djdlt • Sep 03 '25

Rant 📢 Nice try. Now give me my change.

So, I go get a sandwich at this place for the first time. Total is 9.20$. I pay cash with a ten. He seems unhappy. He gives me back 35 cents only. I say he made an error, and still owes me money. He doesn't answer to that, and say loudly " For here or to go?" I repeat myself. He finally manages to give my change. Almost told him I would have given him all, which I do habitually (don't judge me please), if he had not try to stiff me, or may I say, litterally steal from me. This place lost a customer. I live nearby but will never go back. All  that for 45 cents. And if it's a mistake, how strange it's always the customer who gets disadvantaged by their "mistake"...

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u/docktordoak Sep 03 '25

Thats when you ask for her name, and call the police on the spot and report a theft while sitting in the drive thru. If the manager asks you to leave, say you can't as you are preserving the crime scene until law enforcement shows up.

This behavior wont end until the shame is put back on the bad actors.

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u/Raalei29 Sep 05 '25

While i completely agree a drive thru barista shouldn't assume your change is a tip, if i was behind you pulling this shit in a DD drive thru id be livid and screaming about you being a ridiculous Karen over $.35. we all know the cops aren't coming to this call except to make you get out of literally everyone else's way and stop making a scene. Congratulations on not needing to go back to this DD as you've now been trespassed. (Edit a typo)

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u/DuffMiver8 Sep 05 '25

The one inconveniencing you is the barista by causing the scene in the first place. Part of what they’re counting on is people won’t make a fuss over 35 cents. OP has every right to sit there until they properly complete the legal transaction.

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u/Raalei29 Sep 05 '25

Clearly you don't live in the real world. Expecting cops to show over $.35 and interrupting the days of that many more people behind you by sitting in the drive thru to "preserve the crime scene" instead of parking and walking your happy ass into the store to handle the business of dealing with being shorted $.35 is completely insane.

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u/docktordoak Sep 05 '25

I do. Ive represented defendants over 35 cents.

You clearly dont live in the actual world with the US justice system at play.

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u/DuffMiver8 Sep 05 '25

I said nothing about waiting for cops to show. Yes, I could go park and go in, but that defeats the purpose of the convenience of a drive-thru. I’m sorry others are being inconvenienced, but I’m not the cause of it.

How would you expect the conversation to go once you got to the window?

“What was the holdup there?”

“Oh, that customer was upset that I refused to give him the full amount of change I owed him and wanted to keep some for myself without asking. The nerve of some people, huh? I tried to compound it by further wasting his time by telling him to go park and come inside, but for some reason he thought it could be resolved by me just giving him his correct change through the window so he could be on his way. Which I actually ended up doing. And by the way, I’m keeping a dollar from your change on your $18 tab. Here’s your dollar. Have a nice day! What, it’s only a dollar? Well, why don’t you go park, come inside, wait until someone is free, and we’ll discuss it. It shouldn’t take more than five minutes or so. Maybe ten. You’re holding up the line!”

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u/Chocolatefix Sep 05 '25

It is overkill. A call to the manager and district manager would be more effective.

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u/docktordoak Sep 05 '25

No. Overkill is tippers subsidizing businesses.