Shaaban Ali is an honest taxi driver in the UAE. The Pakistani driver found Dh36,000 ($10,000), a passport and some other documents left by a Saudi passenger in his cab. He worked to track down the owner and soon found his office number. He then contacted the man and waited more than an hour for the man to arrive to pick up the money. The Saudi then gave him a $3 tip for returning the papers, his passport, and the cash.
It is not clear if he intends to send the $3 back to his family living in Kohat, Pakistan or just buy a cup of coffee.
Source: Al Arabiya
Be grateful for $3.00, or face deportation with nothing, courtesy of the House of Saud, I always say…
BTW – How to have a happy server/service person when paying by credit card? Tip in cash.
The other reason to tip well is that those we generally tip count on their tips to pay their bills. If I can afford to eat out, I need to also afford an additional 20%. It usually means that I eat at diners, not fancy restaurants. If I have a messy or demanding child with me the tip is even more. I loooove a pedicure. It’s worth an extra 20%. So is a good haircut. Hotel maids also get tips, but not 20% of the cost of the room.
Hey Bron,
You should have gone out and charged up a bunch of stuff on the HD Card ….
I will bet that would have gotten their attention … !!!
I guess Miss Manners is absent these days.
BettyKath, right. I tip so well that I won’t go out unless I can afford a good tip, so I have to be very careful. Nick, I WAS a waitress but that’s not the only source of my being a good tipper; the other reason is that I value people’s work and their contributions. Where would we be without all that?
Honest is the best policy. Look at who winds up being the (fill in your own responce)
nick, are you trying to start a fight?
I found a very nice camera in a fanny pack in the middle of a country road. No id in it. No pictures. I turned it in to the sheriff’s department. The next day the owner stopped by to thank me and give me a reward. I accepted the thanks and rejected the reward. He insisted. I said no, just do something special for someone else. He walked away. Then came back and pushed the money into my hand and walked away again. $50! I didn’t get a chance to negotiate the amount down. I still have $20 to pass on. The other $30 has gone in $5 or $10 amounts to the person following me at the gas station and in extra large tips when I eat out. I think I’ll stop at the thrift store and see if there’s someone who might like to find part of their bill already paid.
This person has just learned an important lesson in life, quite possibly negative.
BTW, wahhabi is not something you have with sushi.
Gene,
Boob was the only word that came to mind that I thought would get past the wordpress filters!
Unless the tipper is a waitress or former waitress, then they’re the best.
I’m surprised it wasn’t a woman..they’re the worst tippers.
This appears to be proof of the old adage, “Virtue is its own reward.”
I was just in New York, and the fare from JFK Airport to midtown Manhatten was $52.50. I gave the taxi driver a $7 tip. I did not realize that I had overpaid so much, when the correct Saudi-style tip should have been $0.015.
If ya have to be paid to be ‘honest’ then what’s the point?
I have also found a wallet & cell phones….I didn’t expect OR WANT anything, other than maybe the other person paying it forward…
Perhaps $3 is a lot of money to a cabbie in UAE. Perhaps there is an expectation that people should do the right thing without reward. Perhaps a lot of things. But it does seem that guy should have been a lot more grateful to the cabbie.
What an ungrateful pr… If the story is fully told.
The removal of the carrot compels the stick.
Wonder why the ramifications of 99% v 1% does not occur to them?
Nice people…..
rafflaw:
I just found, last week, a persons home depot credit card and a company debit card on the street in front of my house. I called the company and waited about 20 minutes and didnt even get a thank you let alone 3 dollars.
I think about how I would feel if I lost something like that, I would be very grateful to have it returned.
I remember I lost a calculator in school and the next class an Egyptian guy came over and gave it back to me, I offered some money and he said it was against his religion to accept payment. I dont know if he was a Muslim or a Christian or something else.
Boob wasn’t exactly the word I was thinking of raff, but I’ll agree on the arrogant and ungrateful part for sure.
What an arrogant and ungrateful boob.