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• Comment on Rev.Enant's answer…

  0 0 There is no excuse for using the time it takes to set up the payment as part of the fare. That's time that _he's_ using and it's part of his overhead - it's like charging you wait time if he has to change a flat. Also, tips are supposed to be for more than the minimum in any job where tips are given. Pleasant, friendly, or entertaining service; providing information or opportunities not strictly within the job description; going out of one's way in one fashion or another, or doing the job with enthusiasm. How much you tip depends on how much "extra" you get, and on your personal values. I tip high for a very short fare, for example, because I know the driver will have to wait for his turn to come up again for a dispatched fare. However, on a long fare, 10% (what you tipped) is actually pretty normal, not low. As for whether you should have tipped at all - it doesn't sound to me like he helped with the luggage, which is part of the job, and he didn't drive safely, which is _definitely_ part of the job, so it doesn't seem like he even did the minimum, never mind anything extra. Myself, if I had been his fare I would have given no tip AND complained. alisoncircus commented about 1 year ago

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  0 0 Actually, bedbugs DO eat each other. Of course, bedbugs don't have teeth - or mandibles - so what they actually do is suck the guts out just the same as sucking the blood out of mammals, or the same as a spider eating any insect or bug, and, as with a spider, there is an exoskeleton left behind. The difference is that after a little bedbug has been eaten by a big bedbug, the body left behind is intact but hollow. A spider would have wrapped it in silk and a harvestman (like a daddy-longlegs) would have crushed it. And when they are shut in a room with zero (0) other sources of food they do, in fact, turn cannibal. It's one of the reasons they are so hard to get rid of, because you think the food supply has been cut off and the young'uns have been poisoned, but the young'uns have been eaten and the old'uns are still laying eggs. As for cats not being bothered - the bedbugs you had may have been humanocentric, but the ones I had weren't. My cat had bites on his stomach, where the fur is thin. Not nearly as many (even per square foot) as my son, who, as a teenager, not only slept like the dead but was not subject to a full body inspection by his mommy. It was his room in the basement that got so heavily infested. Oh, and before you point out that creatures with exoskeletons shed them as they grow, let me point out that creatures with exoskeletons shed them in _sections_ as they grow. They can't crawl out of the old skeleton if there isn't a hole in it. With the few bugs that do this type of growing, the head usually falls off and then the rest of the body is shaken off, or else the carapace splits down the middle, leaving a single piece split open like a stuffed baked potato with the stuffing having walked away. While I didn't examine the remains on the floor (just the ones on the wall to determine that they were remains), given the black, gritty residue that bedbugs leave behind them, I suspect that they shed their exoskeleton in chunks. Certainly there was nothing like the whole carapaces covering my son's wall in the remains on the edges of my box spring. _I_ was changing my sheets regularly and actually turning on the light when I went to bed & got up. It is very fortunate that my son has a severe fear of flying because I don't even want to think about what would happen to him in a tropical climate. On the upside, he does change his sheets at least once a month now. alisoncircus commented about 1 year ago

• Comment on Mike's answer…

  0 0 I wasn't talking about knives purchased there, just the idea that "sharper than new" was somehow significant. But you're right, I haven't been there and should go. alisoncircus commented about 1 year ago

• Comment on Mike's answer…

  0 0 Um, just so you know, new knives are never "sharp." They're just not quite dull; although sometimes the manufacturer expects you to put the finished edge on yourself, in which case they _are_ dull. alisoncircus commented about 1 year ago

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  Bedbugs vs. spiders. Bedbugs vs. cats. Who wins?

  0 0 Bedbugs. They eat each other, I expect they would eat the spider. And bedbugs and cats DO care about each other - the same way bedbugs and humans do. Bedbugs require napalm. alisoncircus answered in House & Home about 1 year ago Answer, comment & read 2 more answers »

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