Delivery story 444 Astro Dan writes: I drive for a local pizza store in my hometown in New Hampshire. I have been working here now for roughly 1 1/2 to 2 months. I have had some pretty crappy experiences with tippers already. We cater to a small college town. Many or most of our orders are from college students, whether it be just kids in the dorms, or huge orders for fraternities and sororities. Sometimes we even get orders from teachers that want to give pizza to their entire class for some bizarre reason. My teachers never ordered us pizza! One day, we got an order for 29 pizzas, at a value of $539.60. Yes, I memorized the total, and you will see why in a few moments. Now, the other driver and I loaded up all the pizzas in my car and I started driving us over there to unload it. (There were no other delivery tickets up at this time.) When there are no other tickets up, we sometimes take the opportunity to perform a "double delivery" and "medicate" ourselves afterwards, if you catch my drift. So, we are driving to the college's Engineering School, and I am taking the shortcuts, so we end up there in like five minutes, with almost twenty minutes to spare. We each have to make two trips to get all the pizza inside. So, after we have unloaded all the pizza for these utterly clueless students, their professor starts in on something with the other driver about how the tip was supposed to be negotiated when it was being ordered. Well, what else can we say to this than just, "Okay, what's your point?" I am distracted while the bill is getting sorted out, and after the other driver gets it, I ask him what the damage is. All he can do is just shake his head back and forth sadly. Want to guess what we got on a $539.60 order? Twenty bucks, total, for the two of us to split right down the middle. So we each got ten bucks. Which amounts to a whopping TWO PERCENT of the total for each of us. Needless to say we really needed to medicate after this. But what makes me even more pissed off about the whole incident is that a few hours earlier I had delivered an order for 100-something bucks all by myself to another professor from the same college and she tipped THIRTY DOLLARS. She gave me almost 30%, and that f#%$ing a$$#ole couldn't give either one of us just 5%.