We need someone like Clint Eastwood to sort this out.
Taxi driver: That's $2.95, including the luggage.
Coogan: Tell me, how may stores are there named Bloomingdales in this town?
Taxi driver: One, why?
Coogan: We passed it twice.
Taxi driver: It's still $2.95, including the luggage.
Coogan: Yeah, well there's $3.00, including the tip.
I make that a 1.7% tip.
There is nothing benign in percentages going up, no matter how slowly. A so-called "flat" percentage is still an increasing amount, as prices keep going up.