Just a tip

Okay so for the most part I have fun at my job. Its not always easy, and its isn't always fun, but I seem to enjoy it. So you may be wondering what it is I do to get that green stuff they call money. Okay well I do valet.

Its great because I get to drive fast, and expensive cars...... okay and also the sometimes inexpensive and slow ones.

But the times you might hear me complain the most about this job are: ( the following are real life scenarios)
I get handed a set of keys to retrieve a car. I get there and realize it is a Jaguar. Am I dreaming, okay maybe to some its not that nice or fancy, but to me I am saying to myself "I am in a Jaguar, and I get to drive it!" I after a few failed attempts at figuring out how to drive it and then figured out that you have to wait for the console to come up once the car is turned on, whirred in into drive and pulled forward in this black beauty. I get out of the car, put my best smile on and retrieve the valet tickets on the car and wait for this baby's owner. The guy hands me what I thought was a wad of money and gets in and drives his baby off. I look down and open the crumbled wad of money that he handed me to find out that he had tipped me a dollar.

Next scenario:
I run like mad to retrieve a car, in which because of the busy night I had been running a lot that evening. I whirr a nice mercedez benz around and graciously open the door and await. @ ladies come scurring out, the driver will not even look at me and they scoot as fast as they can into the car and drive off with me being stiffed of a tip and of being treated like a human.

Yes, and I could tell you other stories that would probably make you laugh, but upset people who do valet. I guess when you know that someone is driving a really expensive car you figure you will get more than a dollar tip. But what upset me most was that the guy made it seem like he WAS handing me a wad of cash. And with the other scenario, I am an understanding person, and so are many valets. So if you don't have cash, say "I am so sorry I don't have any cash", and thank them but treat them like humans because they are in fact humans, but don't try the whole oh if I don't see them they don't see me act, because it really doesn't work.

Okay so those are your tips about tipping for today. Please join me again in these adventures in valet parking.