Sunday, August 5, 2007

How much tip do you give your barber?

I just got myself a haircut at one of the two barber shops in SM City Iloilo. As I was about to sit on the big chair when my barber's previous customer approached from the counter to give him a tip. I didn't mean to, but from the large mirror in front I saw the barber just received a crisp 500 peso bill!

Do most people give three-digit tips to their barbers? Am I the only one giving 20-peso tips? Sometimes I don't even give any. Or perhaps, that was one extra-generous-philanthropist customer who doesn't mind a tip seven times the cost of his haircut.

As for me, I gave that barber 20 pesos.

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