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> so I nabbed 2 margaritas off the drink mat and left a $20.

Stealing two drinks because you couldn't get your way doesn't really strike me as acceptable behavior in any way. Just because you left a 20 doesn't make it any better.

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It is a pretty "Karen" move.

It's also fairly likely that the Margs cost more than $10 a piece, anyway. So he stole them and stiffed the bartender's tip.

Whatta guy!

We’re don’t know so it’s impossible to judge without additional information. If it was a cheap marg bar and they cost $5 each, a $10 tip is generous and helps offset possible minor inconvenience. If it was a place where one boutique margarita costs $22, then that’s just stealing and being an asshole customer, especially if it comes out of the bartender’s wages and gets them in trouble and possibly fired. Hopefully the truth is closer to the first case!

It's stealing either way! If I come to your house, take your car, and leave a pile of cash equal to the car's fair market value in it's place, are you going to be cool with that? I think we'd all agree that's theft. It's no different with a Margarita, regardless of what it costs.

It wasn't stealing. The staff abandoned the margaritas, which I explained in the story.

I commented about this in another couple of places... the margaritas were $7.50 each, Tip would be ~33%. The margaritas were abandoned- I wasn't writing that part in 70pt font because that wasn't the point of the story. Nor was the point of the story was not about the staff being awful, which they were... I worked in food service for 6 years every job from dishwasher to manager.

The story had nothing to do with margaritas, or how a restaurant should handle a power outage.

Couple quick notes: - (2) $7.50 Margaritas, 33% tip. - per the story... they were abandoned by the staff. - Maybe I wasn't clear enough about this in the story - The bartender was being a jerk.

(2) $7.50 Margaritas, 33% tip. and per the story... they were abandoned by the staff.

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