From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxi!mhuxv!burl!rcj Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Lousy tipper & the waitress joke Article-I.D.: burl.69 Posted: Sun Mar 13 22:08:49 1983 Received: Tue Mar 15 01:19:16 1983 A regular entered the diner at lunch and sat in the area being worked by a new waitress. She took his order promptly, checked on him often during the meal, was very polite (and cute besides), and wound up with a three-cent tip for her trouble. One of the other waitresses noticed her dismay and explained that Charley was always like that and that the waitresses fought over who would HAVE to wait on him every day. The next day, however, the new waitress again rushed to wait on Charley, and gave him even better service than the day before. Just before she gave him his bill, she said casually, "You know, you can tell a lot about a man by the way he tips." "Really?" said Charley rather tentatively and defensively. "Sure," she replied, "take yesterday for example. You left your three pennies in a very neat line. That tells me that you are a neat and fastidious person." "That's true," agreed Charley; "what else?" "Well, the first penny told me that you were also a frugal person, and the second penny told me that you are a bachelor." "Well, that's pretty amazing!", said Charley. "You are right on the mark with all three of those. And what did the third penny tell you?" "The third penny, Charley," she said with a smile as she handed him his bill, "told me that your father was also a bachelor." Stolen from 'Laughter, the Best Medicine' in Reader's Digest (some back issue from the last fifteen years, I know not which one), The MAD Programmer alias: Curtis Jackson ...!floyd!burl!rcj ...!sb1!burl!rcj ...!mhuxv!burl!rcj