My family has a PO Box in Oxford (and has for 10 yrs), and ME GOP sends us stuff for the previous owner of the box every year.

They do this every election lol

You can buy your way in lol

Lol you can always give a bunch of money to their "nonprofit", I hear that works

I doubt your fried egg can fit as much Bolivian marching powder up it's nose tho.

Lol wut

Or you could just tip normally and not be a fucking weirdo about it

Yes but how do you know what the hourly wage of a given server in a given restaurant is. Maybe they get more than the minimum! By your logic, they should be tipped less. But how do you know to make that decision?

Do you know that, or do you just assume that? Dumbass.

Both my postman and my car guy make more than $18. You're an idiot.

You're an idiot

Are you planning on interrogating your bartender on their wages before calculating the tip? Seems incredibly awkward.

It wasn't reported because the server's mother went down there and made a scene with the douchebag grifter owner (he was a shithead grifter before this for other reasons) and forced him to cough up the cash by making a scene at his restaurant

Gonna be asking your servers how much they make hourly to ensure it's subminimum huh.

I know of a specific example at Il Leone on Peaks this summer. Anecdote not evidence obvi, but it's a very real thing that happens.

You are unbelievably dense

If you go to South Portland or Westbrook or Falmouth for dinner do you plan to ask what the hourly wage is at the restaurant before you write the tip on the slip?

There are a decent number of restaurants and bars in town that already pay minimum or more hourly plus tips. Do you know which those are? Do you tip less in those places?

The point is to illustrate the absurdity of your question.

If you are basing your tip on how much the bartenders make hourly, wouldn't you need to know the actual figure?

Employers in the restaurant industry in particular steal millions of dollars in tips from employees annually. I wouldn't be so self-assured about anyone else's earnings if I were you

Do you routinely ask the staff how much they make per hour before you buy things in stores?

This seems very complicated and awkward to me.

If you go over to Falmouth, will you ask the servers to make sure they are making less than $18/hr before you decide how much to tip?

How often do you go into a business and ask the employees what their hourly wage is? Me? Never. But I tip my bartenders anyway.

Political candidates love seeing their name everywhere as they drive around, and as such invest far more time and $$ in yard signs than is warranted by their effectiveness - resources that could be better used elsewhere in a campaign.

The big place I noticed the adaptive cruise being weird is when someone is exiting in front of me. It slows down way too much and keeps distance even after the car in front has left the travel lane