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Valued Member
United States
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Poll Question
Ok. This weekend I went to Dunkin Donuts for a latte. The woman took my order and then walked away. I glanced down at the tip jar and saw a Mercury dime sitting right on top. I thought about taking it and leaving a tip vs not leaving a tip at all. I wound up taking it when she wasn't looking and left a dollar bill in its place. Had she been there I would've asked if I could have it and left a tip. Had she been there and the coin were not there, I probably wouldn't have tipped as I used a credit card and had no change. What would you do?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I wound up taking it when she wasn't looking and left a dollar bill in its place. Had she been there I would've asked if I could have it and left a tip. IMHO, you took something you had no right to... basically steal the dime. You said you took it while she wasn't looking; you took it while her back was turned. The right thing to do would've been to bring it to her attention and ask her if she would take a dollar for it. That would've given her the choice of exchanging it. |
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United States
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I already vote so this is just a side comment...... what if you wait for her to come back, you offer $1 for the coin, she got curious and take a look and say "woah it's a rare dime, it may worth a lot of money, I want $5 for it" OR "I will keep it"....... now what?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Well.... the main point is that you are asking for input/opinion about his. This is a good step forward.
As with most of the people/cashier out there would not know if the coin is silver or not, there's a high chance that she will just cash it in and the coin will be passing along until some collector like you hold on to it.....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Should have asked to trade a dollar for a dime. Also I have a friend who is a bartender, she knows that my son and I collect coins, she always lets my son go through her tip jar in exchange for rolling her coins to take to her bank. He would have loved to find a Mercury dime..... |
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United States
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I would of commented about how their was a really cool dime on the top of her tip jar and I really like it as I'm a coin collector and seen where it went from there. if she tried to trade it for face i'd just pull out a dollar and tell her to keep the change. if she would of asked how much it was worth I would of told her about $2 and offer her $1.50 for it. if she decides to keep it as she thinks its cool now that you pointed it out that's also good as it could very well be the start of a collection and a new collector.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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'How would you like to get yourself a bigger tip?'
You have to ask before you can receive.
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United States
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For me, one silver dime wouldn't be that tempting. It would have been nice to inform the person that it was worth more than a dime, and let them decide what to do with it. One of the employees may have wanted it, or needed it more than you. But as always, that is just my opinion.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I trade zinc pennies for copper ones all the time from those "take one leave one" dishes.
I suppose this is a bit more extreme, but ultimately the same. I probably would have done what you did honestly..
Just curious... what year was the dime?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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One more choice. Take the entire jar and run.   |
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United States
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I think tip jars at Dunkin Donuts are ridiculous. Tips are for people who provide a skilled service. Being a clerk who receives your money and gives you a good in return is not providing a skilled service. It's really difficult to mess up taking money and giving someone a doughnut.
But DD and other fast-food joints get away with it mainly because fewer and fewer people want to carry around change anymore, and the tip jar is merely a convenient (and sneaky) way to help people unload their coins. It has nothing to do with rewarding some high school kid for picking out the correct doughnut.
To answer your question, I think taking the dime and leaving a dollar was a fine thing to do. You gave a 90-cent tip--what's wrong with that? They don't care what's in the jar, so long as it's money. If the woman had been at the counter, though, I would have asked if it would be okay to take the dime. But she wasn't, so I don't see what the big deal is.
Edited by jpsned
04/23/2013 7:38 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United Arab Emirates
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Well, you've got bigger ones than me. I don't believe I could have put my hand in a tip jar. I believe if you asked, she would have given it to you.
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Australia
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Quite frankly what you did was to steal the dime, What if the tip jar was owned by a fellow collector  It may have only been a silver dime But You did take it without permission and that Sir makes you a thief  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Sounds like you took something that didn't belong to you without permission.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I would try not to look in jars like that. My luck I will see something on top of one of the locked ones.   |
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