Hubby had the day off, so before hitting the stores to do some Christmas shopping, we stopped at Denney’s for breakfast. A waitress there had her three small children, one an infant and the other two under 5, sitting at a booth while she worked her tables. I caught a few snippets of her conversation with another waitress and the manager about how she couldn’t afford child care for the kids, but her mom would be able to take them during the day. She just needed them there at work for a couple hours in the morning until her mom woke up.
I felt sympathy for her, and was strongly considering a good sized tip, until the time came for her to take her children to her mom’s. She took the children out to the parking lot right next to the door; put them into a 2005 Cadillac Escalade, and drove them to her mom’s. She came back about 15 minutes later in the Escalade, parked it again right by the front door and went back to work.
Is it wrong of me to reconsider leaving a tip for a woman who has purchased an almost $60,000 car, yet bitches about not being able to afford child care?
I don’t feel guilty about it.