Every month or so, Matt and I go grocery shopping at the Navy Exchange here in Hawaii. It's a nice place to shop. The prices are more in line with the rest of the country and they offer the more familiar products of the mainland as opposed to some of the other local grocery stores. It's a very large store as well and only people with military IDs (and their families) are allowed to shop there. All is great, except for one part at the end of the shopping experience.
There are local volunteers, usually elderly people, that load up your cart after checkout, push it to your car and help you unload the bags. In return, you are expected to give them a tip. This bothers Matt to no end (and it's quite funny to me to see how riled up he can get about the "cart people"). He would rather push the cart himself and believes that he shouldn't have to tip them because "I didn't ask for their services!". I've heard that just about every time that we've gone grocery shopping. This last time we went shopping, he only tipped the old lady a dollar, which I thought was pretty stingy. He said that he wasn't going to tip her at all. It might not sound that funny, but it sure is if you're there!
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