Do Lawtalkers Dream of Electric Sheep?

[Hank Chinaski]

i can't send a PM to coltrnae. it says "invalid name." I have sent PMs in the past. coltrane send me the address where you'll be. is there some trick to sending him a PM?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
i can't send a PM to coltrnae. it says "invalid name." I have sent PMs in the past. coltrane send me the address where you'll be. is there some trick to sending him a PM?

I think his screen name is too long for the space allotted on certain browsers.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I think his screen name is too long for the space allotted on certain browsers.

do you tip maids?


new snoop?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342471,00.html

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
i can't send a PM to coltrnae. it says "invalid name." I have sent PMs in the past. coltrane send me the address where you'll be. is there some trick to sending him a PM?

You can give me your response publicly. I think there's a Marriott across the street from the Wayne County courthouse, right?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
You can give me your response publicly. I think there's a Marriott across the street from the Wayne County courthouse, right?

i have never been in state court, so i don't know for sure. if it's downtown, this place is nice http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Rev..._Michigan.html

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I think his screen name is too long for the space allotted on certain browsers.

Right. My screen name hits the cervix of some browsers.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
of "pretty," "little," and "flower" only 1 really fits your persona.


I need help. Do people leave money for a maid when checking out of a hotel? I checked out of an expensive place and left nothing. i never leave anything. But I read that some maid tip is proper.

Who gives maid tips and how much?

I leave a buck or two a night. If the maid doesn't do a good job (e.g., doesn't empty wastebasket or leaves towels on floor), I leave less. If I come in at night and find that, along with turndown, the staff has filled the ice bucket and placed the tv listing conveniently on the bedside table, I tip extra.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Right. My screen name hits the cervix of some browsers.

Yeah, but you're liable to get a disease from the ones it works on.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by barely_legal
I'm inconsistent in my tipping at hotels in the U.S., but when I go on vacation in Mexico, the Caribbean or Central America I tend to tip the maids a few dollars a night because I think it's more customary in those places, especially in tourist-y areas.

Agreed (except at the huge places, like Atlantis where they charge you a service fee).

I was talking to the bartenders in Cabo about the place I was staying and they were saying that the maids and other general non-desk type staff get paid dollars a day and are extremely lucky to have the jobs and leave their families elsewhere in Mexico to perform them or travel great distances every day. May be a load of crap to get me to tip more, but it was pretty effective.

TM

[J. Fred Muggs]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I leave a buck or two a night. If the maid doesn't do a good job (e.g., doesn't empty wastebasket or leaves towels on floor), I leave less. If I come in at night and find that, along with turndown, the staff has filled the ice bucket and placed the tv listing conveniently on the bedside table, I tip extra.

And when they leave a leg of mutton, a 40, and a quart of baby oil, you drop a $20

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Agreed (except at the huge places, like Atlantis where they charge you a service fee).

I was talking to the bartenders in Cabo about the place I was staying and they were saying that the maids and other general non-desk type staff get paid dollars a day and are extremely lucky to have the jobs and leave their families elsewhere in Mexico to perform them or travel great distances every day. May be a load of crap to get me to tip more, but it was pretty effective.

TM

I don't understand this. The bartender tells you that the maids are extremely lucky just to have the job. Why would you need to tip them more? They are already extremely lucky. They probably don't even have the emotional capacity to deal with the excess of good fortune that your five-spot would provide them.

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
They probably don't even have the emotional capacity to deal with the excess of good fortune that your five-spot would provide them.

Not to mention the fact that they would probably invest it unwisely. Thurgreed would be doing them a favor by sparing them that heartbreaking experience.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by ironweed
Not to mention the fact that they would probably invest it unwisely. Thurgreed would be doing them a favor by sparing them that heartbreaking experience.

Exactly. Those are the type of people who are still looking for opportunities in sub-prime mortgage investment vehicles.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by J. Fred Muggs
And when they leave a leg of mutton, a 40, and a quart of baby oil, you drop a $20

Look, you may be a cheap motherfucker, but when I get service like that, I duke a $50.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Exactly. Those are the type of people who are still looking for opportunities in sub-prime mortgage investment vehicles.

Or rolling over their ARMS into a fixed subprime mortgage at a higher rate.