Not familiar with this particular flavor of self-righteousness, eh? If the waitress were black, it’s not likely that they would’ve bothered trying to “save” her.
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Well, that’s the thing. “Do as I say, not as I do” is practically required among the sort of people who dictate morality like this.
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I’m really guilty of this. Not complaining about service and if something is wrong maybe i’ll say something but honestly i really don’t. People in the food industry do not have an easy job and the last thing i’d want is to make their day any worse for any reason. Also i always feel like a huge asshole when i go into a food place right when they’re about to close but you know… i’m hungry. And i at least try to be genuine when i apologize for keeping them late.
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I made a haiku from it -
Finding of assholes
There will always be assholes
And probably not assholes
I’ll take my Nobel prize now.
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Oh quite familiar. I’ve spent most of my life in the South and a depressingly large chunk of it in South Carolina. Being black would have been a clear signal that she needed to be looked down on. Especially at Cracker Barrel.
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Just quoting this to make sure that this info gets to Mark @frauenfelder.
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Technically, you need a weather or a seasonal reference for it to be a true haiku:
Finding of assholes
Life’s a shit-storm of assholes
And probably not assholes.
You’re welcome; just mention me in the Nobel acceptance speech and we’ll call it even.
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I think I know where you’re garing with this, but I still have to mullet over.
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Or, to put it more poetically…
Beat count not enough
Seasonal reference too
Must haiku have. Spring!
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And live solely off those wages.
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##notApprove
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First thing I looked at in that cartoon was the title. Next, my eye immediately went to the inset box with the large numbered list. Then, I read the list of incorrect rules without having taken in the less eye-grabbing note up top that they were incorrect. And wondered WTF?
Anybody else?
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Maybe it’s not a hoax, meaning that it really was left on the table for the waitress, but the grammar errors and “make America great again” and such make me wonder if the “tipper” was just engaging in some insincere trolling.
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Beat count is off:
Finding of assholes
Life’s a shitstorm of assholes
And some not assholes
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5-7-5 beats
Seasonal reference here
There is your haiku
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Hmmm… at Cracker Barrel? Well, it’s not impossible…
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Yes and no. As a mother, it’s very, very difficult for me to admit this, but I loved it for a while, and then I grew bored and restless. Somewhat equivalent, but less so due to gender expectations, Mr. Jilly loved it for a while, and then he felt the same. As fully realized human beings, any of us need more than just our kids to feel validated as contributing members of society. Gender roles be damned. Whether it’s the caregiver 1 now or caregiver 2 later or caregiver 3, 4, and 5 during, what’s important is that the child is loved and the caregiver is not isolated in his/her own journey.
I respect your experience with okra. I was a vegetarian for years, and about two decades ago, Mr. Jilly and I went to Nebraska so he could interview for a job as public library director. The library board took us out to dinner and I said, “I don’t eat steak.” A very nice lady leaned over and said, “Maybe you’ve never had good steak.”
Gumbo! Yes on meth to the good gumbo.
Also, @anon61221983 is my total hero, now and forever. I might feel a song welling up inside me, oh, no, here it comes … “did you ever know that you’re my hero, you’re everything I wish I could be” … sorry, but I warned you.
And finally, because haikus are what Mr. Jilly and I do for fun lately.
Okra, maybe not
Be gracious to all servers
Fuck all prejudice
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Okra also goes in pinakbet, a Filipino vegetable stew which is quite yummy.
Let’s hope that the sanctimonious assholes who thought this was an adequate substitute for, y’know, a real tip, get Freaky Friday-ed at some point and get to spend some time as a footsore waitron unit who is hoping the tips tonight will be enough to pay for groceries for the next few days,
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Tipping in France is token… at least these days.
True, but I was trying to use the other guy’s words from his weird post to make it… 
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