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Brother and sister, originally from Alabama who are now both Nashvillians, break down anything and everything. Trying our best to find the humor wherever we can. Hosted by Amy Goodgame and Marty Booth.
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Snowman...Tipping
Welcome to hey Real Quick. Welcome to hey Real Quick. So it's mid-January and we lived through that snow day. Friday January 10th was our big snow day here in Nashville.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there's still snow on the ground.
Speaker 1:A little bit Right and it's January 18th.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Still, there Still got some.
Speaker 1:I still had some ice yesterday. Yeah, the ice is lingering, yeah, and it was, I think, 61 showing on my car yesterday, which I kind of believe, but but the snow's not melting, it's packed in, I don't know what's happening?
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, shout out to Nashville, whatever Middle Tennessee, because somebody got us some new salt trucks. Because I felt a little bit like I was talking about this with somebody. They were like it's kind of weird, like going to school and work and stuff and like there's snow piled up on the edges. It's like I live in you know Ohio or something Like. Oh yeah, they just move it to the edges. It's like it's like I live in you know Ohio or something like.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, they just move it to the side, like we got some equipment. Somebody upgraded yeah Parking lots were like yeah, we don't. We went somewhere last night and there was like I guess I don't know what you call that pile of snow, whatever, yeah, in the parking lot and they're like eight, ten feet high.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, so somebody did some work, so like the salt, the whatever we could get around, because three years ago, ten years ago, nobody would have been going anywhere.
Speaker 2:Well, the last time it snowed, it was it rained like a few days before, so they couldn't do the put the brine on the road because it was just washed away. So yeah, the roads were fantastic which. I will say we built a snowman.
Speaker 1:What's up we?
Speaker 2:checked that one off.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:I did not go sledding. Our boys went solo. I was like, yeah, y'all want to go. They got all bundled up, walked a neighborhood over. It was about a 20, 30-minute walk.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So they walked 20 minutes or so, met up with their buddies, went sledding for three straight hours.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, You're in a new era.
Speaker 2:Came in soaking, like everybody's hands were soaking wet.
Speaker 1:Oh, bless them.
Speaker 2:And then they were done.
Speaker 1:They didn't go back, they didn't play in it again. Yeah, they're like we're going to this is a marathon and then, yeah, we're hanging.
Speaker 2:We're going all out and I'm going to wait for it to melt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so it's not going to. It's raining today, in case you want to know. But we have a I think they're calling it polar vortex, which I don't know why we got a name. Every front that's coming in, so I kind of want to airbrush that on the back of a sweatshirt or something Polar Vortex 25.
Speaker 2:25.
Speaker 1:Because I think the low Sunday nights can be nine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, eight or nine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean back to the old person, talk I got to check my pipes, you know what I'm saying. Okay, yeah, I wrap them outside with a little, you know, covers, whatever. Yeah, because we did have one freeze but it didn't bust or burst, which I know. I got a bursted, I don't know Anyway. So we don't want that to happen again but be dripping faucets and opening cabinet doors again cabinet doors, again, again, buckle up, it's just that monitor and I'm going to say it's hard to get your faucet to a drip.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I did it, it's either a tiny stream or it's closed and you're like you're trying to get it just right.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I have time, I just, yeah, do I just wide open, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just let it go. Company's gonna be like they fell for it.
Speaker 2:Everybody dripping faucets, yeah metro water's like. Get ready to send out the bales um so when it snows started like friday morning last friday morning so the roads were well done, because it snowed all day it did and then saturday we had uh, I'm all about free tickets. There's nothing better in this world than free tickets.
Speaker 1:Where'd you go last Saturday?
Speaker 2:So we have free tickets to the Preds game ice hockey so it's perfect.
Speaker 1:You know snowing outside? Did you sled over there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, do something icy, be cold again, yeah, inside. So we went to the Preds game. They lost, of course, because we went. But the kicker there is, which I loved at Bridgestone Arena.
Speaker 1:They have tons of places to eat.
Speaker 2:It's a good setup.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a nice place, it's a nice arena, However.
Speaker 2:so we get there, and then me and Braxton are like you know, we kind of break up. Robin and Carter go get what they want to eat. She's going to grab some popcorn.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, yeah I forgot what he got.
Speaker 2:Pretzel, maybe an Icy, some other stuff, me and Braxton are like where's the chicken, fingers and fries?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And the Coca-Cola's. So we go. They're all different. That's what drives me bonkers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it. Yeah, it's kind of like the food court, but for an arena right, like the little stores or restaurants.
Speaker 2:Used to back in the day, every place just had popcorn, hot dogs, a couple candy bars and Cokes.
Speaker 1:It was a concessions and it was the same all the way around thing.
Speaker 2:Now you're like oh, you want chicken, Just keep walking.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Past the barbecue.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, go past the gas station in the arena, whatever.
Speaker 2:It's kind of like the airport a little bit, yeah yeah. So we get up there and I said I want two chicken finger baskets and two Cokes. Lady was super nice. She was like okay, Types it in.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then turns the screen around. Do you want a tip? 20, 25 or 30 percent? Um?
Speaker 1:I just told you chicken fingers and two cokes yeah, mcdonald's don't do that, I guess, typed it in so anyway so then so then I'm at the tip screen. Oh man, there's all the pressure.
Speaker 2:She was really nice Normally, I know. And the kicker is it's real easy to hit 20, 25 or 30.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But down there kind of small.
Speaker 1:Other amount. It says custom, so I'm like I'm going to go custom.
Speaker 2:I go custom and then usually I do like I don't know. A buck, two bucks, three bucks, I don't know. I went zero. I went no tip Felt like garbage.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:I'm like I'm a horrible person. Get back to the seats. I asked Robin. I was like I guess they got a whatever, a couple of things. I was like hey, what did you do? Did you tip?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She goes. I did two bucks and I was like, oh man, I did nothing. Well, she gave a buck and you gave a buck, yeah, but like when we go, if we go to that, or sometimes we'll go to four separate places- yeah. Like Braxton will be like oh, I want my oldest. He'll be like oh, I want tacos.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Or whatever, or quesadilla, so he'll get something here. So if you're going to multiple places and you're tipping 20 percent. Yeah, every time, yeah, which I think the total See if I can get this right Two chicken finger baskets and two Cokes. I think it was forty five dollars. Oh, it was about 50 bucks, so I'm like if I hit the first button, 20%. I'm giving you $10 to hit two buttons I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1:So here's my question.
Speaker 2:I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1:So here's my question, and I don't know the answer, and maybe somebody that listens to this may reply A what are those people getting paid? Because my daughter and actually all my kids have worked in food service.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've worked in food service.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you've worked in it. So if you're a waiter or food or server, let me say that, right, whatever. If you're a server, right, I think it's two dollars and something.
Speaker 2:That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:OK, yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2:You should get minimum wage.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at least if you're serving people Robots maybe less, but people but like, like when you go to France or something, like I haven't gone, but like our daughter went over there for a little bit and she was like, yeah, they just pay their servers, there's no tipping you, just they're already getting paid. So that my question is the people that are basically doing fast food at the arena when you go to the soccer?
Speaker 2:How much are they getting paid?
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're not getting the $2 something like A percentage tip for, basically like if you were going to Burger King outside of the arena.
Speaker 2:Also, if everybody just don't call it minimum wage if other people get less than minimum wage.
Speaker 1:There's obviously no minimum.
Speaker 2:Well, if minimum wage is whatever, 15 or 12, or 10 or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's low.
Speaker 2:But I'm saying, if some people are getting $2 to be a waiter or waitress, yeah. Then technically I guess that would be. I don't enjoy doing math.
Speaker 1:No, when I'm going out to.
Speaker 2:You know you're going to for entertainment you're going to eat you're doing this Like I don't want to do math.
Speaker 1:Yeah, minimum wage in Tennessee, by the way, is $7.25.
Speaker 2:Okay, I knew it was low, but Nobody should get lower than that. Awesome, but if you're handing me yeah.
Speaker 1:Like they'll do it. Two baskets of food and two Cokes.
Speaker 2:I'll do that in a sea game, the soccer club yeah. I used to. I'd go get whatever like a non-alcoholic Heineken. Yeah, Sometimes I guess they give me the big one or whatever, I don't know. It'd be $11. So they hand me the can.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They go hand me the can. Oh man Turn the screen around. Do you want a tip 20%? There's one there.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I'm not tipping you to hand me a. Can I tip people if it's like a lot of work?
Speaker 1:waiter or waitress, whatever right you're assuming you're bringing me food, you're clearing my table you're back and forth. Yeah, there's a lot of effort, right, and you're and you know that person's not getting paid like. Our daughter for a while worked at a restaurant, so if she doesn't make tips, she's making less than three dollars an hour see, that's not. I know it's not right, but we all know, like everybody but not every restaurant's like that.
Speaker 2:Some restaurants they don't do that right like the.
Speaker 1:What did they call it? Fast, casual, like a Chipotle or like somewhere where you're going through the line or, and then you get into coffee shops.
Speaker 2:So it's basically we have to pay. Sorry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's basically we have to. The tip makes those people's, makes those people's paychecks.
Speaker 2:But it's weird, it's like oh, you're the customer, you pay our staff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How about you just pay your own staff and make the chicken two dollars more? And and the whole pressure off me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's based like if somebody's like well, they did a really good job, I'm going to give them a really good tip. Well, you assume that the restaurant is monitoring their job performance? Anyway. I just I wish it was kind of like France or England or wherever which, like, you know what, you know if you want, if you want to tip somebody there, like because you go to like a nice like go for it.
Speaker 1:It's a big occasion, yeah right, and you're just, and they'll still look at you crazy. But you know, anyway, I don't like it though, because it's like you're saying, if that's the case, like at the ice hockey game, ice hockey, just one kind sand hockey, then that's assuming, if which I ain't been to Burger King since the early 90s. But if I went into Burger King and I got a combo meal or Chick-fil-A or whatever, they're going to turn the screen around and go, would you like to tip? It ain't that kind of restaurant. And I'm not dogging people that work in fast food restaurants. I mean, everybody should get paid. But we assumed for the last whatever 20, 30 years, if you walk in somewhere you sit down, they bring your drink order. If you walk in somewhere you sit down, they bring your drink order, like you're getting your food from somebody else.
Speaker 2:Well, here's the here's.
Speaker 1:And I'm a good tipper.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because, like you know, and I y'all are, because, especially when you've either worked in food service, we don't tip enough.
Speaker 2:No, I'm just kidding your kids work in food service.
Speaker 1:You're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:You know Well here's. I guess this is the main issue with it. Everybody assumes, and it's always been implied, that tipping is optional.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know it's always like oh, tipping is optional, Tipping is optional. Well, it's not optional if you're going to pay your worker two dollars an hour, Exactly, and like now, it's on me. But, what if my service wasn't good?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And what if they were? I mean, I've gone to a fast food restaurant and they've been crazy nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and.
Speaker 2:I don't tip them because they don't do that. And I've been to a nice restaurant where, like that dude was kind of a jerk. Yeah, exactly, but I'm supposed to give him 20 percent, or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then the fast food person you're just supposed to be like. Well, you don't tip them.
Speaker 1:But I'll say this why not? Our daughter said this there were plenty of times and she's a great, she was a great server, but she's like oh, plenty of times and no tip.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So not everybody's operating on the same ground rules, that's true. I mean, if we're leaving this stuff up to the public, I just still. It's 2025. The fact that you can go get a server job in the United States of America and go give people their food at a nice-ish chain restaurant, or even nicer, and get $2. And you're relying on the public's tipping.
Speaker 2:That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:That's the biggest it's like a joke.
Speaker 2:It's like you made it up. It's an excuse to not pay your workers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's all that is.
Speaker 2:So we feel strongly about that, but I will say a long time ago, before we had kids, I went to Scotland with a buddy to play golf because we're like, we're horrible at this sport board. Let's go halfway across the world and do it at the most and be bad there. Yeah, um, and we went to a pub or whatever. Uh, first of all, we were all excited to hear scottish accents.
Speaker 2:We're like oh man, we're in scotland, we're gonna have the scottish whatever bartender, you know, and just yeah and so, or maybe anyway, maybe I've told this before, I don't know. But it's a great story, yeah he comes up and so we're ready to order and we're like you're not from here, he's from Memphis, but anyway so we asked him. We're like hey dude, what's the tipping situation like over here? He's like. He's like man, I just handed you a drink, he's like that's not hard, you don't tip that. He's like now if you were sitting down for a meal.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was coming back and forth, I was bringing you food he's like that's when you tip. Yeah, he's like you don't tip somebody for handing you a drink.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but in.
Speaker 2:America. People will be like oh, let me get two of these yeah. And somebody hands them to them, they're like, yeah, keep the change.
Speaker 1:And can I say this too, sorry, with the invention of, like the iPad or Shopify or Square, where they flip the screen around to you. I don't like that. So I think that's where tipping just tipped the scales a bit and went a little la la because they figured they could do that. I'm not saying it's not warranted in some places, even coffee shops I know not everybody always tips at a coffee shop but say, for instance, you go to a coffee shop a lot and you have meetings there or whatever you know that's nice, put a tip on it, but when they flipped it around and it used to not be 20, 30, 35.
Speaker 2:Oh, it used to be like 10, 12, 15.
Speaker 1:And then it was 15. I know it sounds like we're complaining, but it's gone crazy and people are tired of tipping and they're tip-weary. Well, they've done studies.
Speaker 2:People are burnt and I get during COVID, like you know, people ordering all their meals.
Speaker 1:Stuff is delivered and people are struggling. Yeah, people were tipping, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you tip the mess out of people. Yeah, but they have it now at NSC games. You know, sometimes people hand you chicken fingers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure.
Speaker 2:Tip, don't tip.
Speaker 1:There's a little Mapco like little which is a gas station in Tennessee here yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So there's like a little Mapco like, which is a gas station in Tennessee here, yeah, yeah. So there's like a little place. There's heat lamps, there's little coolers yeah and then there's four self-checkout things. So we've been through there. Grab a hot dog under the heat lamp, grab a Coke out of the cooler, grab a little bag of M&M's yeah and then we walk over to self M&Ms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then we walk over to self.
Speaker 2:Self, yeah, self checkout. Scan three things. There's a person there if you need them, like if you accidentally scan something twice.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Something like that. At the end of it it says tip 20, 25, 25, 30, and you're not tipping yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do I hit 30 and I get that back. It like shoots out like an atm. Yeah, I picked up the hot dog.
Speaker 2:That's nutso. Yeah, I grabbed the coke, I scanned it yeah, who am I tipping?
Speaker 1:it's almost like they accidentally said OK, are we going to put tipping options on all these little machines and self checkouts? Yeah, everything but like the self serve. And then somebody made a mistake and just left it on. You're making them mad so they don't want to tip their server when they go to Applebee's or something like that and those people. They need your tips because we're crazy here and we don't pay them.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Not even $3. Think about, okay, if my neighbor's kid is 10. Right, okay, say I'm going to get them to pick my mail up for a week. You think I'm going to get them to pick my mail up for a week. You think I'm going to give them three dollars.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, it's crazy. It's the. I mean these people are grown. Some people that's their extra job. They got to have two, three jobs. Yeah, it blows my mind Anyway.
Speaker 2:And I get like when we were at the hockey game. By the way, there's like a Coke.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:The large Coke. It is refillable.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Still $11.
Speaker 1:Yeah For a Coke. We're at movie level here, yeah, so my thing is just make the Coke $11.50 or $12. I don't care If you're going to pay $11, you're going to pay $12.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Take that extra dollar from every Coke that's sold, pay your workers more and take it out of my hands.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't want to walk away with my chicken fingers feeling like a bad person.
Speaker 1:That's what happened.
Speaker 2:I walked away with two baskets of chicken fingers being like. Well, I guess they won't be able to fill up their car with gas Even though you've paid almost 50 bucks.
Speaker 1:And here's the thing too Everybody knows which one you're tapping, because they know your fingers the farthest to the left.
Speaker 2:People are behind you.
Speaker 1:People are behind you. It's like if you are at a nice dinner and when you get ready to pay and you know if it's not a machine and they bring you the actual ticket and you're tipping. If people in front of you are looking over to see what you're writing and people in the booth behind you or the table over can like see what you're tipping are you trying to set that pin down? Yeah, it's weird it is weird.
Speaker 2:I think one of my rules is kind of like if I can be trained to do the job in 30 minutes or less, like you could show me how to, if they order a Coke or chicken fingers, you hit this button, yeah, and you turn the screen around. Yeah, that's not a typical, that's not a skill. That's not a typical skill. Yeah To me, that's not a typical skill. That's not a typical skill. Yeah To me. Now, I don't know the menu at a restaurant, I don't know.
Speaker 1:You know walking back to the cook and like making sure the salad's on the right.
Speaker 2:I don't know all that. That takes a lot of learn. That's some effort you get in there. Or like some things are an art.
Speaker 1:Like, if you cut hair. Yes, whatever you do, like you're like you getting tipped because I can't do that, right, yeah, yeah, somebody details your car, or something like that. Yeah, there's some effort into it.
Speaker 2:You went to a school or like there's some elbow grease involved, yeah, but you don't tip Like if somebody comes to cut your yard. You just pay them what they charge, and they say hey, I charge you 40 bucks, but Pay them what they charge you.
Speaker 1:And they say hey, I charge you 40 bucks, you don't tip on top of that, but you look out the door and you're like man.
Speaker 2:That was impeccable work. It looks better than it's ever looked. You don't be like hey, I know you charged me 40, but there's some extra.
Speaker 1:The tip there is you just hire him again or her again. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like you're like, that's my yard person now, yeah, it's crazy that that is not typical work, but now watching me scan my own hot dog and coke is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've gone too far, sorry, yeah, anyway it's too much tipping it's too much shipping yeah yeah, oh man, um. So yeah, it's not going to snow again, but it is going to be cold.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Like dangerously cold, or at least for us down here.
Speaker 2:I would tip the weatherman. If he was right, I'll say that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think you're going to be tipping.
Speaker 2:They get the temp right. That's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's going to be eight degrees.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Nine degrees.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I degrees. Yeah, nine degrees. Yeah, I don't know, oh my gosh, my thing is just don't, I don't want my power to go off right, because then it's like I guess the whole family gets on the sectional couch with all the blankets.
Speaker 2:And then because we have, what are we doing?
Speaker 1:I don't know. At that point you're not doing a puzzle or watching anything for you know, because your power's out and I guess you're just reading a book.
Speaker 2:I remember being little and wanting the power to go out. Yeah, when you're like seven or eight like ooh power's out, and we had to actually like light candles.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, like real candles. Oh yeah, real candles. Yeah, it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2:Like burning candles, Like this is awesome and then you go to like every time you'd walk into a room.
Speaker 1:Try to turn the light on in the bathroom.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Then you're in the bathroom with a candle Like yeah. You want to watch cartoons and you can't Like. Okay, yeah, this was fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so anyway, I'm not looking forward to it.
Speaker 2:I'm not either. But, the good news is, if the power goes out, they can't turn that screen around. If you go somewhere, I'm just kidding, sorry.
Speaker 1:You might be the only person there, because it's going to be 12 degrees 20%, 30%. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Chance of snow. I ain't tipping nothing.
Speaker 1:No, 0% yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, so stay warm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tip your server.
Speaker 2:Tip your server well.
Speaker 1:And your hairstylist, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or your nail lady, I don't get my nails done.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't get my nails done, but yeah you should, they should get tipped right, they get tipped good right.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah. They should they, they should they should, yeah. Or like a masseuse sorry, yeah, massage therapists, they're gonna get tipped they probably get tipped.
Speaker 2:Amazing cause.
Speaker 1:Like you, feel good, I know you're a little light headed when you come out of there that's amazing yeah get yourself something nice, get some candles when the power goes out. I'm saying, oh gosh.
Speaker 2:Anyway, all right, y'all have a good one.
Speaker 1:Stay warm.
