I don’t know if you’ve worked in a foodservice job that is tipped, but many of these servers are not paid otherwise. And while I agree that the establishment should be responsible for paying their staff, that’s not the way it is. So, no, tipping is not just a nice extra that shouldn’t be expected. It’s how these people pay their bills and feed their families.
In my state tipped employee minimum wage is $2.13 an hour. I remember that most pay periods that didn’t cover my taxes. My take home was almost entirely from tips.
What should be doesn’t matter. We are faced with what is. If you dine in a restaurant with tipped workers, and don’t leave a tip you, are expecting that person to volunteer their time for you.

While very few “pro-life” proponents would deny a women abortive care in a life threatening situation, most support laws that, in practice, reduce or deny proper healthcare to women in life threatening situations.

I remember the time in my life, before I had a baby—back when I swore I never would. So many of the noises children make were deplorable. Then I had a baby. The noises are still deplorable, but you become desensitized. And while I understand that people without children haven’t gotten that desensitization, it’s part of life. Take a deep breath. I know it feels like 29 hours, but babies don’t actually have that much fortitude.

For real. I know 2 hours of screaming feels like 29 hours… but I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a child that could scream more than 2 hours without passing out.

They also don’t take stain from henna… or rather they don’t take a lasting stain.

Americans done understand because we don’t learn to speak other languages…

One of the fun things Texas has done recently is make so that you can sue your neighbor if you think they’ve had an abortion! Maybe it was a horribly traumatic miscarriage —but you think it was an abortion so you have the right to prolong the trauma!!

You can hold the wind.

Speaking truth right here. Don’t play with fire.