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Old Nov 6, 2019 | 8:12 pm
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When a driver doesn’t fetch me at my stated origin point, I can’t see any reason to tip the driver. My house is in the middle of a residential inclined street, and some drivers stop at the intersection and wait for me to walk up the half block to them. I always need for them to drive me to my destination so it’s pointless to complain. I just walk to their car and let them drive me to my destination.

but I don’t know why they fail to stop in front of my listed address, and I have zero desire to tip when I’m forced to inconvenience myself by walking to their car. This isn’t like the discount pool/shared ride where I’m supposed to walk to a specific destination to get my ride.

I feel similar if I’m at a restaurant and they stop across the street, forcing me to jaywalk through 2 lanes of traffic. I won’t jaywalk and will just walk to cross at the stop light to get to them; but again that to me means “no tip”
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