When we go out to dinner, the toughest part of paying the bill is always calculating the tip, right? Some cheapskates get away with paying less than the standard 15 to 20 percent because they'll make up an excuse about poor service. The bottom line is that these waiters and waitresses get paid next to nothing per hour, and thrive on what they make in tips, so when you leave a small tip, you're really cheating the server. I, personally, usually double the first number on the bill, and that usually comes out to a little more than 20 percent, which I think is fair. If the service is really good, we'll give a little more.
Well, Stacy Knutson, a struggling waitress at the Fryin' Pan restaurant in Moorhead, Minnesota, recently received an anonymous $12,000 tip from a customer that police suspected might be drug money. Knutson received the generous tip back in November, when a customer left a to-go box on a table. Knutson noticed the box and reportedly followed the woman outside and tried returning the box it its owner, but the customer told her to keep it. When the waitress returned to the kitchen, she opened the box and found three wads of bills wrapped in rubber bands, totaling $12,000. Being the religiously good Samaritan that she is, Knutson turned the money into the local police station as lost property. Why? What an idiot! Just so everyone reading this knows; if I was put in this same situation, those wads of bills were going right into my wads of pocket. No police involved at all! If any of you say differently, you're a liar and deserve to be punished!
Anyway, police told 'nutty' Knutson that if the money went unclaimed for 90 days, she could keep it. But here's the kicker! The police changed their tune after a police dog detected the scent of marijuana on the bills. Police then offered Knutson a $1,000 reward for turning in the money, but the short-on-cash mother of five was not hearing that! She refused the reward money and sued the police department. This never would've happened if Knutson hadn't gone straight to the police!
On Thursday, authorities announced that they were able to tie the money to a criminal investigation, and that Knutson would be getting a check for $12,000. Knutson, who is supposedly a very religious person, claims that this was the will of God and that the dough was intended as gift to help Knutson's financial woes. Personally, I could've done without all the religious hoo-hah, and chalked it up to a stroke of some really dumb luck! They do say that people from Minnesota aren't always the sharpest knife in the drawer! If this happened in New York, that cash was in her pocket with no police involved. What would you have done?
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