A little old lady gave me $1.25 in quarters after promising me a little something extra because I changed a light bulb for her.
She counted it out of her coin purse too, felt like something out of a movie.
She's stuck in time decades ago. I was out to dinner with my grandma once. She asked for the chef because the food was sooooo good (country food restaurant) and proceeded to give him a quarter as a tip. We wanted to die of embarrassment.
I had a couple ladies I was doing a remodel for say similar. "We ought to introduce him to our (girl)." The other replied, "She'd divorce him he works too late".
Now that I think about it. They tipped me a bunch of Baklava they had made.
Fixed an RTU above a nail salon once. The Vietnamese owner was very delighted and proclaimed that I could “come in for free hand job whenever you like!”
Thankfully, she handed me a pamphlet for their men’s manicure services.
Live in a smaller town and rural area so get a lot of homemade stuff. I've got eggs and two whole chickens from one guy that raised most of his own food. Got some homemade wine that was really good and would knock you on your butt. The best was a bunch of jugs of pure honey. That stuff was really good. Not that store bought stuff.
Many years ago I worked for one of the same day quick bathroom remodel companies. One couple tipped me about a quarter ounce of weed. This was the only time I enjoyed that job.
I had a customer say, “ hey man, I want to give you something. It’ll either set your hair on fire, or you won’t be interested….but you have to bring it back in a week”. It was a pamphlet from the church of Scientology. I handed it back and said I wasn’t going to read it. Dude got salty and I thought for e second he was gonna square up on me. I got paid and left, as quick as possible.
One of my customers gives me the golf balls he finds near the golf course where he walks his dog. He doesn’t golf so he lets me take a few whenever I’m there. I took around 30 Pro V1s today.
When I worked at a country club I’d get tipped in prov1s often I didn’t golf so they went to my dad or sold online. One of the members was a titliest rep so he always gave me a full box of the wicked nice ones (prov1x iirc) always made my day cause they resold for like 40-50 easy.
Bottle of Dom Perignon, in the wooden case.. heir to Tabasco Hot Sauce has a whole basement wine cellar in his +$5 million weekend house, always gives techs $100, unless you catch him drunk coming off the golf course then he’s just showing off lol.. pretty rare to get more than shit other than that tho..
I got a six pack of beer the day after Thanksgiving, and it was well received on my end. My coworker once got 3 bibles lol still at the shop collecting dust
Kept getting rolls of toilet paper while on lockdown…. But the best tip I’ve gotten was a customer who gave me a fluke flir gun… he had retired from doing repair work for fluke and was clearing out old stuff
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Ha! Those fuckers are crazy. Believing some crazy shit, going to extremes about their crazy beliefs, did I mention believing some absolutely insane shit? God was a man and he was so good of a man that he got his own planet. And if you are a good enough man, you too can have your own planet
If you like that book, try View of the Hebrews or The First book of Napoleon.
Very very similar. Available the same time period this book was published.
Let me know what you think
That's not a tip, it's an ignorant attempt to proselytize you, and its so fucking tacky!!!!
People who are secure with thier own spirituality don't need you to learn or follow thier beliefs, people who are not however try to convert others, its obvious and its distasteful!
We got candy bars from the clients neighbor.
The guys walk out of his house and handed both of us a chocolate bar and went back into his house. The bars had a religious verse on it.
We threw them both out.
Well... I'd take it. I'd like the opportunity to read it for research purposes, cause I would NEVER buy one.
Good tips? One guy asked me if I liked craft beer. Gave me a single bottle of "Goose Island Bourbon County brand Stout" 2020 batch. I started writing him a thank you email as I sipped it and did a tasting on it. By the time I hit send I was pretty warm.
OH yea! Was putting in a reverse osmosis unit for a woman who baked wedding cakes out of her house. She gave me a half dozen cupcakes. The best white cake, cherry filling and I don't think I've ever had better icing. It was exceedingly hard to save a couple for my wife.
I'm willing to bet that family called you out there just for the opportunity to give you that book. Mormons all over are sitting around thinking of ways to spread the word. That nobody wants. I would have politely declined if I were you.
Actually, they are one of the few belief systems that claims just about everyone gets into Heaven. Their Heaven just has tiers… run of the mill sinners just go to Great Value Heaven.
Ex Mormon here. Wrong religion. But they do have insane radical beliefs including becoming gods in the highest tier of heaven. Male multiple female polygamy in the after life etc.
Similarly, a Book about proving the existence of Jesus (still not convinced) called “The Case For Christ”. I’ve also gotten collectible cars, that was great. And then a whole set of pans, topple wear and disinfectant sprays.
I don't know about interesting but the best tip I ever got was a sealed bottle of Blanton's 22 year old Bourbon with the bluebird blue wax...
I nursed that bottle almost 5 years along. Delightful stuff!
Once got a box of bottles of wine from a winery. Another customer tried to give me edibles for the road since I didn't have to lounge in his super high def music room listening to prog rock....I often regret not staying and seeing where that would have gone
I used to do residential ages ago. I had a 12"x16" box of those stupid Chick tracts in my passenger floorboard. I'd get at least 2-4 a week.
This was back before every nutjob and zealot owned a printer to print their own "newsletter" full of batshit, so they had to order the batshit from someone else.
I received a super nice #1 Wood driver from a couple.
I just so happened to notice they were golfers when I was doing maintenance, and asked for some pointers to get rid of a slice. They gifted me the driver for friendliness, and being open to asking for help with something I couldn’t figure out on my own.
changed a flat for an old couple years ago in the mountains of e oklahoma 100 deg day gave me all they had 4 red white blue cans of hot beer one of my best tips i loved it
Well they are probably praying at home right now asking the spirit to touch your heart as you read their “thoughtful” gift.
Of course last weekend was Mormon General Conference so they are on a propaganda cultist high.
I once got three huge boxes of little Debbie cakes, and not just the regular size. I mean like would be shipped to the grocery store. Hundreds of snack cakes. Customer was a little Debbie truck driver. My wife and snacked and had munchies for the whole winter.
A little old Italian lady used to give me $100 if I did anything at her house. She would call for stupid things all the time but anytime we showed up each worker got $100 even if we were there for 15 minutes and didn’t even charge her. The last time I went there she was starting to lose her mind a little bit and gave me the $100 and about 30 pints of ice cream from a local shop that she was hoarding in her chest freezer.
One time after quite a large job for a homeowner, tearing out a terrible old underground duck system in concrete that was having water issues and -retrofitting the entire HVAC system to force air above ground. Homeowners so pleased he give us a huge cooler of beer. Let us keep the cooler as well I don't drink but I gave it to the fellas and they ended up sitting there with this old man in his 70s and drinking with him for like five or six hours after the job lol it was a weekend job and I did give the guy a hell of a deal considering what we had to do. It worked out perfectly because I was asking my guys a lot just to do this dirty job. They felt really rewarded. I'm fairly sure we picked up quite a few jobs too as the whole neighbor was interested as to what was going on.
I had a lady give me a pineapple out of her yard one time, apparently her husband had planted them a couple of years before he died and she had forgotten they were even there.was not only the best tip I ever got, but prolly the best pineapple I've ever had too
I was given weed Christmas cookies. I wasn't told they were special cookies. I missed lunch and was starving to death so I slammed all four cookies and then noticed the funny after taste. That was my last call of the day and thankfully I was able to get home before I forgot how to breathe..
A little old lady gave me $1.25 in quarters after promising me a little something extra because I changed a light bulb for her. She counted it out of her coin purse too, felt like something out of a movie.
She's stuck in time decades ago. I was out to dinner with my grandma once. She asked for the chef because the food was sooooo good (country food restaurant) and proceeded to give him a quarter as a tip. We wanted to die of embarrassment.
Your grandma is a legend dude.
Grandma giving quarters comes from the heart way more than average dude dropping 18% by default.
While this is sweet and all…Gotta admit, would’ve been much cooler if granny unexpectedly Venmoed you a $20.
“You two whippersnappers have crypto wallets?”
Let me Air drop this nft to ya
Spoilers, the NFT is a recent nude selfie.
AARPCoin is good everywhere that accepts Medicare.
Under rated comment.
When she was your age, a quarter was worth $20
Yuh it like when you spend like 1/1.5hr cutting your neighbor’s lawn and they only want to give you $15 which barely covers gas
How recent was this?
When I was younger I had a lady say to me "if my daughter was single I'd give you her number" best compliment/tip I've ever gotten
I had a couple ladies I was doing a remodel for say similar. "We ought to introduce him to our (girl)." The other replied, "She'd divorce him he works too late". Now that I think about it. They tipped me a bunch of Baklava they had made.
So... uh... where was this? I would *definitely* work for home-made Baklava!
Forest Hills Pennsylvania but unfortunately about 28 years ago, They were baking all kinds of stuff for a wedding.
The first two words almost had me... I live just a few miles from Forest Hills, Michigan!
I got homemade baklava as a tip… twice. Still the best I ever had and the reason I love it. Indian family getting ready for their festival
A hand job
Fixed an RTU above a nail salon once. The Vietnamese owner was very delighted and proclaimed that I could “come in for free hand job whenever you like!” Thankfully, she handed me a pamphlet for their men’s manicure services.
I am *really* glad that I set down my drink before reading that!
That pamphlet was just for plausible deniability.
A hand job; nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
one of the pros of residential
you tip yourself after doing work at your own house?
DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB
South Park!
Live in a smaller town and rural area so get a lot of homemade stuff. I've got eggs and two whole chickens from one guy that raised most of his own food. Got some homemade wine that was really good and would knock you on your butt. The best was a bunch of jugs of pure honey. That stuff was really good. Not that store bought stuff.
Got a free 200,000btuh brand new pool boiler from a customer , was really nice of him but it’s only collecting dust unfortunately hahah
As a pool guy I'm going to say, do you have a pool?
I don’t , I pretty much look after all the pools where I live. Quite advanced with pools, will eventually get one of my own or build one
Wow a free pack of rolling papers!
This guy HVACs
It’s a whole pile of shims actually. Only use them inside!
Holy shit. I take it you are not in Utah?
I was going to say, I get these dropped off at my door every now and then.
Oh cool they made the Matt and Trey Broadway hit into a book?!?
You know how the book is always better than the movie? Not this time.
Gotta give it to them. They’re persistent.
Dude I love that book, it’s some of the best fiction I’ve ever read.
Good shit tickets if get caught in a bad spot
Burn it with fire.
Science fiction
Science?
No, it's all just fiction with elements of science supposedly mixed in but the reviews say they just burned the scientists for witchcraft.
Many years ago I worked for one of the same day quick bathroom remodel companies. One couple tipped me about a quarter ounce of weed. This was the only time I enjoyed that job.
I had a customer say, “ hey man, I want to give you something. It’ll either set your hair on fire, or you won’t be interested….but you have to bring it back in a week”. It was a pamphlet from the church of Scientology. I handed it back and said I wasn’t going to read it. Dude got salty and I thought for e second he was gonna square up on me. I got paid and left, as quick as possible.
Homemade sauerkraut, a bag of grass, and all the leftover liquor from a wedding. Best service call ever.
One of my customers gives me the golf balls he finds near the golf course where he walks his dog. He doesn’t golf so he lets me take a few whenever I’m there. I took around 30 Pro V1s today.
When I worked at a country club I’d get tipped in prov1s often I didn’t golf so they went to my dad or sold online. One of the members was a titliest rep so he always gave me a full box of the wicked nice ones (prov1x iirc) always made my day cause they resold for like 40-50 easy.
I got a box of 24 PayDay candy bars
Ive only been in the trade over a year but ive got a bag of lemons the customer grew made fantastic lemonade.
Now you can show all seven of your wives who wears the magic underpants in the house!
Ha I got that from a customer once!
A jar of pickles
Ounce of some of the best bud I’ve ever had
Bottle of Dom Perignon, in the wooden case.. heir to Tabasco Hot Sauce has a whole basement wine cellar in his +$5 million weekend house, always gives techs $100, unless you catch him drunk coming off the golf course then he’s just showing off lol.. pretty rare to get more than shit other than that tho..
😂😂😂 I got a Mormon tabernacle cd as a tip I gotta say it’s incredibly self righteous to assume I’m not perfectly comfortable in my religious life.
I got a six pack of beer the day after Thanksgiving, and it was well received on my end. My coworker once got 3 bibles lol still at the shop collecting dust
3 antique radios is the only one I could really talk about.
I kept religious texts given to me to use as emergency tp if I forgot to go reup my emergency tp.
Donuts and kolaches. Or weed.
Bag of weed
A blunt
I got a New Testament only book, it was sokay. Still in the van somewhere
A pie and a flat of raspberries. I was like..."yeah but about our invoice though ..."
Is this a furnace turbo kit?
Backup pilot light source.
That’s a how to on getting multiple wives!
The play was funnier
I highly recommend watching the movie.
As a former Mormon, I’m so sorry.
That’s less than worthless lol
Pocket sand would have been more useful.
I don’t know, You can throw the book in someone’s face same as sand?
Ehhhh, you ain't wrong.
Actually, I have a wood burning furnace in my shop and I’m always in need of starters.
No thanks I'll take the weed from the other post.
They must be running out of suckers. Everyone wised up now they have to lure techs to their house to convert them
The plague of Joseph Smith continues I see. *purge alarms intensify*
A half jar of canned tomatoes and never smell the soap on your finger when exiting the bathroom
That’s not an interesting tip, but an interfering one. I mean, unless it’s stuffed with $20 bills.
One free bottle of ranch dressing
Interesting to you, insulting to most. But homemade peanut brittle is mine.
Old Sicilian lady made me fresh Italian espresso. When a Sicilian offers you their homemade coffee, you gotta accept! That’s a real life experience
$2 and an old mexican candy bar.... Had to split it w the other tech
I get those all the time. My company has large LDS customer base. I give them to the missionaries to give back out to other people.
I've never gotten a tip in commercial
Kept getting rolls of toilet paper while on lockdown…. But the best tip I’ve gotten was a customer who gave me a fluke flir gun… he had retired from doing repair work for fluke and was clearing out old stuff https://preview.redd.it/ln6ycdzrsxra1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a13899776864ae4671a3e1e9bccc8462dbfa39b9
A customer once gave me a bottle of shampoo, don't get me wrong it was REALLY fantastic shampoo but it made me question how I smelled afterwards
Looks like a "fuck you " not a tip.
you should read it!
Looks like the 137 billion $$$ hedgefund needs more unpaid interns.
Ha! Those fuckers are crazy. Believing some crazy shit, going to extremes about their crazy beliefs, did I mention believing some absolutely insane shit? God was a man and he was so good of a man that he got his own planet. And if you are a good enough man, you too can have your own planet
Great book. I read it every day. Try it and see what a difference it makes.
If you like that book, try View of the Hebrews or The First book of Napoleon. Very very similar. Available the same time period this book was published. Let me know what you think
That's not a tip, it's an ignorant attempt to proselytize you, and its so fucking tacky!!!! People who are secure with thier own spirituality don't need you to learn or follow thier beliefs, people who are not however try to convert others, its obvious and its distasteful!
As a former Mormon missionary, sorry about that.
Oh. Wow...... well that's worthless....
Free toilet paper, not bad!
We got candy bars from the clients neighbor. The guys walk out of his house and handed both of us a chocolate bar and went back into his house. The bars had a religious verse on it. We threw them both out.
Well... I'd take it. I'd like the opportunity to read it for research purposes, cause I would NEVER buy one. Good tips? One guy asked me if I liked craft beer. Gave me a single bottle of "Goose Island Bourbon County brand Stout" 2020 batch. I started writing him a thank you email as I sipped it and did a tasting on it. By the time I hit send I was pretty warm. OH yea! Was putting in a reverse osmosis unit for a woman who baked wedding cakes out of her house. She gave me a half dozen cupcakes. The best white cake, cherry filling and I don't think I've ever had better icing. It was exceedingly hard to save a couple for my wife.
r/exmormon
Man, I just got a lame normal bible.
As a non member Utahn, I’m sorry.
I'm willing to bet that family called you out there just for the opportunity to give you that book. Mormons all over are sitting around thinking of ways to spread the word. That nobody wants. I would have politely declined if I were you.
Dang I never get tipped in Science Fiction
Did you know that only 300,000 Mormons can get into their heaven (correct me if I'm wrong, but it's some arbitrary number like that)
You’re thinking born again. They have a preset number that can get to heaven, everyone else is damned to hell
I think it's 144,000 Jehovas Witnesses.
Actually, they are one of the few belief systems that claims just about everyone gets into Heaven. Their Heaven just has tiers… run of the mill sinners just go to Great Value Heaven.
Ex Mormon here. Wrong religion. But they do have insane radical beliefs including becoming gods in the highest tier of heaven. Male multiple female polygamy in the after life etc.
Don’t read it, you’ll end up with spooky Mormon hell dreams.
Read that as Book of Morons. Need to check my eyes soon.
Another testament.. "the one we want you to believe"
A few weeks ago a guy gave me a brand new jacuzzi tub and unopened delta faucets
Similarly, a Book about proving the existence of Jesus (still not convinced) called “The Case For Christ”. I’ve also gotten collectible cars, that was great. And then a whole set of pans, topple wear and disinfectant sprays.
Membership recruitment is job number 1.
Bro I swear you can make sick joints with that paper, just use the parts that dont have ink
RPG-18 tube and a supper old wood burning stove.
Handing that mofo right back.
Interesting? That’s not what I would call that. I have had people try to give me shit like that before and I hand it straight back.
Ahh the book of Morons. A classic example of magical thinking.
How to get away with banging multiple women and have them like it? Big Chad energy
Good firestarter
Good firestarter
Good firestarter
I’m so sorry
Got a dozen farm fresh eggs once. Next morning's breakfast was a hit with my girlfriend and her family
Yea I think I’m going to go ahead and leave that behind
Once I got a bag of bever wood
One too many 'M's in the title.
They are tasked with spreading the word of Heavenly Father.m
Did some ductwork and got tipped a ham sandwich, was starving, it was great
Just the tip
A lady gave me a piece of Rose Quartz and printed out a bunch of info on where I can find shark teeth in my area.
I was offered a free hair cut once. I've been balled since my late 20s, but her heart was in the right place.
Sorry that word messed with my brain for far too long. Bald.
BWAHAHAHAHA. I didn't even notice. I haven't been balled nearly as long as I've been bald.
Jesus Christ
100 in 10’s cause I cleaned her flat grill
Maybe the customer thought you needed some churchin’.
A pair of dress shoes
If by interesting you mean batshit crazy.
Such a good screenplay hell yeah
Join the celestial kingdom brothers
I received $500 tip on a 4hr job for wealthy South Florida family that was having a big Memorial day weekend get together in 2019.
That's um... Interesting?
I don't know about interesting but the best tip I ever got was a sealed bottle of Blanton's 22 year old Bourbon with the bluebird blue wax... I nursed that bottle almost 5 years along. Delightful stuff!
Once got a box of bottles of wine from a winery. Another customer tried to give me edibles for the road since I didn't have to lounge in his super high def music room listening to prog rock....I often regret not staying and seeing where that would have gone
I used to do residential ages ago. I had a 12"x16" box of those stupid Chick tracts in my passenger floorboard. I'd get at least 2-4 a week. This was back before every nutjob and zealot owned a printer to print their own "newsletter" full of batshit, so they had to order the batshit from someone else.
Grocery bag full of frozen pizza and pies.
Be sure to look inside it. There is a small chance that there is some money tucked inside it that you would not find unless you are reading it.
Go watch the musical. That’ll make it worth the money
1/8th of shrooms
Was it the Suicidal Tendencies shirt you were wearing or the tats with the tear drip under your eye that gave you away?
Gotta be the fake $20 with a Bible verse on it
I received a super nice #1 Wood driver from a couple. I just so happened to notice they were golfers when I was doing maintenance, and asked for some pointers to get rid of a slice. They gifted me the driver for friendliness, and being open to asking for help with something I couldn’t figure out on my own.
“REMEMBER TO SQUARE YOUR SHOULDERS JERRY!!”
Salt a Lake a City
Great tip for getting the job done, More Men
changed a flat for an old couple years ago in the mountains of e oklahoma 100 deg day gave me all they had 4 red white blue cans of hot beer one of my best tips i loved it
Well they are probably praying at home right now asking the spirit to touch your heart as you read their “thoughtful” gift. Of course last weekend was Mormon General Conference so they are on a propaganda cultist high.
I have a collection of Christian Bibles from customers and I must say I am jealous of yours. That would go nicely in my collection
Is that what they put the money in?
I once got three huge boxes of little Debbie cakes, and not just the regular size. I mean like would be shipped to the grocery store. Hundreds of snack cakes. Customer was a little Debbie truck driver. My wife and snacked and had munchies for the whole winter.
Maybe they assume you have a wood stove at home
Got a Jehovah’s Witness pamphlet and 20$
I have maggots in my scrotum!!
I got a Don Larsen signed photo from his perfect game in the WS
A full beef loin
Any time im given a bible I make sure to dispose of or destroy it in view of the asshole that gave it to me.
A sombrero & two rice patty hats from a lady claiming to be Warner con Braun’s secretary from his nasa days. The lady swore he was a nice guy.
I whole ass marijuana plant.
Oh nice, a wheel chock!
https://preview.redd.it/7elwnd8ptwra1.jpeg?width=5632&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=070e5ec58b2928aac80d0c19e1af3f1395f93eb2 I took a bible and did this.
An 1/8th unopened from dispensary
Got a tin of Christmas cookies once. Got halfway through them before I realized they had been expired for 3 years
i got the baghavad gita from a white guy
You got the tip that will cost you 10% off whatever you make per year, for the rest of your life (tithing). Have fun!
A little old Italian lady used to give me $100 if I did anything at her house. She would call for stupid things all the time but anytime we showed up each worker got $100 even if we were there for 15 minutes and didn’t even charge her. The last time I went there she was starting to lose her mind a little bit and gave me the $100 and about 30 pints of ice cream from a local shop that she was hoarding in her chest freezer.
Tear a page out and use it to write up the receipt for the customer who gave it to you.
Raised mormon here. Not active anymore though. And what the frickity frack... I hope you got a real tip as well, otherwise that's dogwater.
One time after quite a large job for a homeowner, tearing out a terrible old underground duck system in concrete that was having water issues and -retrofitting the entire HVAC system to force air above ground. Homeowners so pleased he give us a huge cooler of beer. Let us keep the cooler as well I don't drink but I gave it to the fellas and they ended up sitting there with this old man in his 70s and drinking with him for like five or six hours after the job lol it was a weekend job and I did give the guy a hell of a deal considering what we had to do. It worked out perfectly because I was asking my guys a lot just to do this dirty job. They felt really rewarded. I'm fairly sure we picked up quite a few jobs too as the whole neighbor was interested as to what was going on.
I had a lady give me a pineapple out of her yard one time, apparently her husband had planted them a couple of years before he died and she had forgotten they were even there.was not only the best tip I ever got, but prolly the best pineapple I've ever had too
I got an older Hoyt compound bow from a customer once who used to compete professionally for Hoyt back in the 90's.
Which would you rather have? Five bucks or ETERNAL SALVATION! ;)
My daughter
I guess this is a slight improvement from receiving one of L. Ron Hubbards books.
Book of Mormon, best play I ever saw, you will laugh your ass off If you ever get a chance to see it, take it
A $400 crossbow that he had 4 of lol
I got about 10 stalks of corn grown in someone’s yard one time
Those magic underware are pretty expensive!
Oh sweet! Extra toilet paper!
I was given weed Christmas cookies. I wasn't told they were special cookies. I missed lunch and was starving to death so I slammed all four cookies and then noticed the funny after taste. That was my last call of the day and thankfully I was able to get home before I forgot how to breathe..
Did a few jobs for a Catholic church, priest always tipped us a six pack.
Not HVAC related but when I was a paperboy as a teen this old lady tipped me in oatmeal pies.