Dear 1st Cab Driver I Didn’t Tip in Ten Years

It wasn’t that you couldn’t hear me over the sound in your phone headset conversation.

Or that I could barely understand you, due to your accent, mumbling, and soft voice.

Or that you dropped me off a half-block from my destination. With my luggage, which I loaded and unloaded myself.

Or that your credit card interface offered tip buttons for “20%”, “25%”, and “30%”, which subtly and unethically manipulates people into tipping at least 25%. (Incidentally, my standard tip is 32% for that ride.)

No, it was the in-car video screen with no volume control playing an interview with Jenny McCarthy that did it.

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