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minor things that make you fume

efcforever said:
Driving down a street with parked cars on either side and another car is coming towards me. Nowhere to pull in so I reverse about 8 car lengths to let the other driver through. Not so much as a thank you from the other driver!
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Did that when I was in Mboro, in a side street in Yarm.

Fella kept honking, panicked and I went straight into the back of a brand new Audi A3. Nobody was around but I left my details under her window wiper, we managed to sort it without the insurance companies. Turned out the car belonged to a heavily pregnant woman, who couldn't believe I had left details. Hoping for some good karma at some point back!
 
GwladysPhil said:
Normally say "one for yourself" and the bar staff who served you will take 20 - 50p.

I can understand why in places like down south, where the term is not widely used, they'd take like a fiver.
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degsy said:
'Oop north' were tipping is not the norm and hardly anybody 'runs a tab' but pays cash as they go. It is offered as a courtesy, but NOT a tip as we don't tip, to deduct from your change a small nominal amount - which if you're busy and pulling pints hand over fist can soon mount up and is also tax free.

Oh and you forgot coal in the bath

Bath? - Luxury!...and away we go.
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Aha! "One for yourself" is fairly normal down South... but it's not intended to be 20p to 50p. It's literal: the cost of a drink for the person pulling your pint. So anywhere between £2 and £4, roughly, with the unspoken etiquette being that they don't take a drink that costs more than your own. If I want the staff to get less than that, I'd invite them to "keep the change". Fairly sure it's quite a widespread standard because that's how it was when I was working in pubs and bars 20 years ago, and it's the method my friends and I follow now as patrons.

I'm the first to ridicule the Americans for tipping 20% at all times, but offering 20p to the person who just served you a round of beers seems VERY tight.

EDIT: obviously this all changes if the barmaid is hot / ginger.
 
Tree13 said:
Aha! "One for yourself" is fairly normal down South... but it's not intended to be 20p to 50p. It's literal: the cost of a drink for the person pulling your pint. So anywhere between £2 and £4, roughly, with the unspoken etiquette being that they don't take a drink that costs more than your own. If I want the staff to get less than that, I'd invite them to "keep the change". Fairly sure it's quite a widespread standard because that's how it was when I was working in pubs and bars 20 years ago, and it's the method my friends and I follow now as patrons.

I'm the first to ridicule the Americans for tipping 20% at all times, but offering 20p to the person who just served you a round of beers seems VERY tight.

EDIT: obviously this all changes if the barmaid is hot / ginger.
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