tipping question also book recs
Dec. 23rd, 2010 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelights1. Say you go to your favorite restaurant on December 23, and it's really busy so you eat at the bar, and they comp your drink, "because you are such a good customer" is what they say. Your total is $21. The drink would have been $8. You normally tip 20%. How much would you tip?
2. The hostess at my favorite restaurant always asks about what I'm reading. (I usually eat alone, with a book.) Tonight she asked me to bring her some book recs next time I come in. Sometimes when I am reading a book I think of a person who might like it, but my brain doesn't work well in the other direction. Also I barely know this woman. She reads anything-- really, anything!-- but not much nonfiction because she is afraid it will be boring. She just got a Nook, and wanted to buy books for it, but was overwhelmed by all the titles and authors without a clue to how to choose. She bought Dune. She gets books from her mom, who passes on the books from her (the mom's) book group. She mentioned a few titles, none of which I recognized. "So basically Oprah's Book Group choices," she said, as if she thought I would sneer at her for that.
Help?
3. Speaking of book recs and restaurants. A very attractive young person who works as a busboy at different restaurant from the one above asked me about what I was reading (Connie Willis's Remake). Then he told me about the best book he had ever read (Eric Nylund's Signal to Noise). I told him I would put it on my to-read list but when I looked it up it did not really look like my sort of thing. When I was his age, any sf would have been at least worth looking at, but now, there are so very many books and so very little time. Have any of you read it? Is it worth a look?
2. The hostess at my favorite restaurant always asks about what I'm reading. (I usually eat alone, with a book.) Tonight she asked me to bring her some book recs next time I come in. Sometimes when I am reading a book I think of a person who might like it, but my brain doesn't work well in the other direction. Also I barely know this woman. She reads anything-- really, anything!-- but not much nonfiction because she is afraid it will be boring. She just got a Nook, and wanted to buy books for it, but was overwhelmed by all the titles and authors without a clue to how to choose. She bought Dune. She gets books from her mom, who passes on the books from her (the mom's) book group. She mentioned a few titles, none of which I recognized. "So basically Oprah's Book Group choices," she said, as if she thought I would sneer at her for that.
Help?
3. Speaking of book recs and restaurants. A very attractive young person who works as a busboy at different restaurant from the one above asked me about what I was reading (Connie Willis's Remake). Then he told me about the best book he had ever read (Eric Nylund's Signal to Noise). I told him I would put it on my to-read list but when I looked it up it did not really look like my sort of thing. When I was his age, any sf would have been at least worth looking at, but now, there are so very many books and so very little time. Have any of you read it? Is it worth a look?