Next time you’re looking at your check at a restaurant, wondering if your server /really/ deserves 20+%, I invite you to consider that they may have been holding in a shit for several hours because it’s been too busy to find more than 90 consecutive seconds to do anything not work related, and that by the time they have enough of a lull to go, they may find that they now cannot, in spite of the constant feeling that they need to, and may in fact end up on their toilet at 3 AM after getting home, head in their hands wondering when they might find release so they can at last go to bed. Story not from my own experience, obviously. But I invite you to consider this possibility, and then tip them 50%















