I read about the “art project" tipping tumblr from a dude who works here. It hit two points for me:

1) when I was still in college, I eventually made the outing to McSorley’s Ale House. To think about it, it’s the definitive old-school bar in New York. Serves their own beer (two kinds—light and dark) and is generally well regarded. When I walked up, I ordered a light and a dark, which comes out to about a shot of beer a piece for a total of $4. I put down $6.

That’s when the bartender shouted, “HEY. ASSHOLE. LEAVE TWO DOLLARS FOR A BEER. YA FUCKING OUT OF TOWNER."

Now, by this point in my life, I have frequented a few bars. The “dollar-a-beer" rule has been universal as far as I’ve found. This floored me. Especially when the bartender wouldn’t stop demanding I leave an extra two dollars for the 8 oz beers that were mostly foam. But I left him the extra two dollars, a bit of beer left in each glass and then turned them over on the tips. That’s when I vowed to never go back into McSorley’s and just drink their fucking beer at Joe’s.

2) last night at the crocodi-gator lounge transplate in the east village. walked over to get my free pizza. turned my ticket in and the dude demanded i give him a tip. i get it: it is hot working the ovens and the dude works like a dog. but i’d rather a fucking notice that pizza is $1 than a dude coughing loudly as he shakes a fucking tip jar in my face that’s goddamn motherfucking optional than the alternative. which is the bar that advertises a free goddamn pizza with every beer.

tl;dr i moved back to new york today and i dislike being told i haven’t tipped enough when some fuckstick who works at a williamsburg “natural" bodega is basically making it possible to easily steal identities because he’s being “artistic." also fuck mcsoreley’s.

edit: "transplate." clearly someone didn’t wake up at 6am today with a fuzzy head and a heart full of lead.