Does Lexus pick your car up from home for service?

You own a 13 year old Lexus and you can stop taking pot shots at anyone who owns a late model Lexus and likes to bring it to the Lexus dealer for service and maybe even gives a generous tip to the driver. What's it to you?

I'd say you're a bitter, nasty, jealous little person. Now go ahead and tell me I'm wrong.

I do?

Pray tell, what 13 year old Lexus do I own?

go ahead, tell us. We'll wait.

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still waiting...

Without any rationalization as to why.

You idiots crack me up.

What's it to you? Can you say "bitter, nasty, jealous little person?" Did you miss that part, Elmo?

Why don't you just tell us what you own?

So, waited for me to respond BEFORE you posted the question? Your powers of self-delusion are formidable.

If you had just shut up, nothing. But you and your types come into places like this and spew your crap, trying to make it look like what you're doing is rational.

And when you're called on it, you know it--but you can't acknowledge that gracefully. Instead, you act like this.

Face it: you've been outed.

YOU made the assertion; YOU back it up. (Or are you one of those net-kooks who claims something and then, when asked to back it up, tells everyone to "go do a Google search if you want to know"?)

You can't do it, can you? Of course not. Because you don't have a clue what you're talking about.

So, you haven't a clue what you own?

So, you haven't a clue what you own?

Kids will always grow up, sooner or later. I don't worry about that. Enjoy.

Yep. I have a clue. But I wasn't the one who made the claim about what I own--you were.

All I asked you to do was to back that claim up.

And you can't, of course, just like you can't back up anything you say.

Oh no, there's plenty of justification. I tip the porter because it makes me feel good and because that's also how I was raised, to be kind to people.

And you don't tip the copier service guy, or the trash guy, because it doesn't make you feel good.

So don't try to rationalize about how the low wage worker deserves it, etc, etc. Either tip the low wage workers because they deserve it, or don't.

That you would pick out SOME low wage workers as more deserving means it's not about them, it's about you. It's about what YOU want other people to perceive about you. YOU think tipping the porter makes you look good, so you feel good. But you know nobody's watching you and the trash men, and nobody in your social circle has made it chic to tip the trash guys, so you don't do it. Screw their families; they can rot, right?

I hope I'm a pain in your ass, because you deserve every bit of it.

Let's go back and see here...who invited you into this discussion? Oh, yeah--you invited yourself, with absolutely no actual information whatsoever.

Because David Z would MUCH rather stay inside, where it's warm and cozy...

The copier guy doesn't work for us, he works for Kodak. The copier is leased and the lease includes a maintenance contract that is billed to our acct's payable dept.

I don't "tip" the trash guys. Theirs is just an annual cash gift. Admittedly small, but the trash guys get more from us at Xmas than they get from anyone else on the block (as far as I know). By the way, since you seem to have fixated on this it might interest you to know we have twice weekly trash pickup, every Monday and Thursday except for holidays.

Now here's something for you to really spin in your tenny-runners about: One of the vendors I do a fair amount of business with sends a 7-lb Honey Baked Ham to my home at Christmas and another vendor sends a nice potted Poinsettia plant each year. Several of my vendors send holiday cards, but my wife doesn't reciprocate. She sends cards only to a list of about 75 personal friends, none of whom are my vendors. I'm really a hypocrite, huh?

The lot boy doesn't work for you, he works for the Lexus dealership. What's your point?

And you pay $50 for an oil change, which includes washing the car and pickup and dropoff. You've already paid the bill to the Lexus dealer, just like you've already paid the bill to Kodak.

Now what?

You have NO rationalization for how you behave. Either the guy is low wage and deserves it, or he isn't and doesn't.

Exactly. I only give my money to National Audubon Society, World Wildlife Foundation, and Sierra Club. There is no reason to help those who have more than 2 kids in a family while the parents can not even feed themselves. I guess you give a lot money to the Sourth Asia Tsunami Relief Fund, so they can cut more trees and totally eliminates the wildlife over there.

And what do you think you deserve for your contributions to this group?