steelie dont listen to dem yankees or southerners.

we out in the west coast do it this way

at a restaurant give them 15% of the bill

doormen, a dollar or two maybe two if they don't do shiot dont give them anything.

Cabbies. we dont have much cabs here out west but when we were in NYC, I usually gave them two or three bucks. some people say 10% is proper.

when you leave your hotel, leave a little something for the cleaning lady
but don't go tipping everybody. Just the services folks


in Mexico it is out of hand. Everybody wanted a tip. This dude would sit by the sidewalk and people were parking their cars he would give directions with hand signals kind of guiding them in you know...the dumb arse white people and black people were tipping this guy, but me being the savvy super mexican basically told him to go fly a kite. I could park my own car.

another one would say I will watch the car for you and expect a tip, The nerve of that guy. I never paid it of course. I would smile at him when I came back to the car but that was that. One time I told him to look both ways before he crossed the street. That is a good tip dont cha think? That took care of that.