My uncle
god bless him has a bit of a rep in my family for being a cheapass.
One time in the 60's,he had recently availed himself of the new technology and gotten one o' them "cred-it cards". A bunch of the brothers and sisters went out to dinner and left cash on the table for the waitress.
He was the last one out of the restaurant with a smug grin. Uncle Prince went back in to see what had happened (mainly because he didn't trust Elbert)

Elbert had scooped all the cash and put it on his card, stiffing the waitress and garnering a nice little windfall for himself. Uncle Prince was furious and gave the waitress a huge tip and stomped back out to the parking lot. He forced Elbert to give up the cash and returned it to each sibling, thereby making Elbert treat them all to dinner!

length? Probably 60 or 70 bucks, quite large for 1965.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 21:34, 1 reply)

So the point was...
... that he hadn't included a tip when he paid by card, or what?

He hadn't "garnered a windfall for himself" at all: that money would have to be used to pay his card bill. What's unfair about that?

It seems like "Uncle Prince" was the unkind one in this story, forcing him to pay for the whole meal.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 8:09, closed)