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Knightskye
06-24-2008, 10:10 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/us/25gas.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


For gas station attendants in Mexico, who earn $100 a week, the surge in sales has meant extra money to tuck into the pockets of their olive green overalls. To tip attendants is the custom here, and one of them, Alejandro Jurado, flashing a brick-size wad of pesos and dollars, said, “Americans tip better.”

Anyway, the article is about people in Texas who live near the border, and go over the border into Mexico to buy gas, because it's about $2.00 less per gallon. And as quoted above, they apparently tip better than the average customer. :D

RonPaulFever
06-24-2008, 10:19 PM
Yes! Totally grassroots-related.

Knightskye
06-24-2008, 10:41 PM
Yes! Totally grassroots-related.

Do you troll in all the other non-grassroots-related threads here? Because a cursory glance provides you with a crapload.

MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2
06-25-2008, 05:36 AM
Do you troll in all the other non-grassroots-related threads here? Because a cursory glance provides you with a crapload.

Help me out here, I can't really tell...

Are you defending your mistake of posting in the wrong forum?

Or are you defending your intentional posting in the wrong forum?

Or are you just being an ass to someone requesting that things stay on topic?

Ozwest
06-25-2008, 05:43 AM
I love my V-8.

Give me something faster...

Whatever it takes.

Electric, hydro?

nobody's_hero
06-25-2008, 06:23 AM
Hmm. . .. I couldn't even imagine tipping here.

asgardshill
06-25-2008, 06:29 AM
Tipping? At a gas station? Emily Post never prepared us for this.

Ozwest
06-25-2008, 06:37 AM
One thing Yanks and Aussies have in common.

We don't live in piss-ant countries.

We need room to move.

Lmata
06-25-2008, 07:55 AM
We are buying our gas in Mexico.

DH works across the border and fills up over there. It's saving us about 1.25/gal. His buddy at work (who lives over there) has figured out which Pemex stations really pump out a liter worth of gas so they go to the honest stations.

And yes, in Mexico you tip at the gas stations. They are the ones that fill the tank for you so why not. It only takes a few pesos and everyone is happy!

Ozwest
06-25-2008, 08:03 AM
Give me an electric that goes fast.

I'll buy it.