Sadly, you can't convince the people leaving these that they are doing something very cruel and will have the opposite effect they intend.
Posted on 01/14/2016 8:26:18 AM PST by Morgana
(WTXF) - A waiter in Kansas named Garret was excited late last month when a customer left a $20 bill, rolled up under a ketchup bottle.
But when he got a closer look, the “$20 bill†was actually an admonition to read the Bible:
IMAGE OF TRACT ON LINK
(Excerpt) Read more at fox29.com ...
Yep. The LAST thing I would do after that is to read the Bible, if that’s the way people who read it are going to act.
So...
there was no tip...just a religious tract?
I’m not convinced...
Customer not Catholic.
Seeing that virtually all of the other examples of this were proven hoaxes, I’m going to pretty much roll my eyes seeing that this person ran to the press (likely social media first), with the perfect set-up story to elicit maximum web-mob “outrage” and “sympathy”.
You know what happens to these tracts if that is all that is left and no tip? They don’t even make it to the kitchen, they hit the first trash can the waitress/waiter sees!
And the IDIOT who left this tip IS NOT A CHRISTIAN AND HAD NO CONCEPT OF CHRISTIANITY.
How would that lowlife feel if when he ordered a pizza the delivery many left a box filled solely with a TIP that MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE?
Jack Chick?
They drop them on the ground to get people to pick them up. I have been fooled this way. I don’t like it. If anyone thinks that they are going to recruit people to Christianity by using deceit and subterfuge, they are mistaken. It just makes them look desperate and mean. Not Christian qualities if you ask me.
Poor little cupcake Garret. A member of the perpetually offended.
Pitch it in the trash like we did 20 years ago when it 1st started.
Well, it was a tip....
Actually the Bible trach in question I have seen before. Usually laying around at flea markets and other places of business. It’s folded just as you see it in the picture and looks like someone lost a $20. or even a $100. So yes I believe this happened.
I was a waitress once I know it happens.
This is a non-story.
I assume he also got a regular tip.
These tract bills are nothing new.
Sadly, you can't convince the people leaving these that they are doing something very cruel and will have the opposite effect they intend.
These things have been around for years. I still remember, 35 years ago when I was a child, seeing a $20 on the ground at the shopping mall, picking it up and then seeing the religious literature on the other side. The people who put these around also put those Chick publications around too. While I certainly would not do this to a waiter or waitress, I think its pretty funny and have collected them over the years.
In an odd way, I am also grateful for those who treated him poorly, as they taught him a life lesson.
He went to work well groomed, was respectful and polite to all of his customers, regardless of how they treated him... and he was the, by far, the biggest tip-earner of all the drivers at his joint.
He himself, always tips generously, as do the wife and I... on the few occasions we eat out.
Garrett works hard for the money! He’s not offended by Christians he’s offended by cheapskates.
They print up some silly little pamphlet that has a copy of maybe a fourth of a ten or twenty dollar bill and fold it so that the copy is on the outside facing up. This is a fact and whether you buy it or not it is a tactic that is used by some pseudo churches. I like finding money on the ground but when I bend over and pick up one of those I get pissed. No wonder atheists are so down on Christianity. They can go f themselves.
No it’s a story because sadly some well meaning Christians still do it.
Yes I know these tracts have been around for some time. I was not a waitress last week you know. The sad part is, some “well meaning” Christians need to learn this does not lead people to Christ. If anything this leads them away from him!
Who would want to leave silly treasures that moth and rust consume when you can leave the greatest tip of all, eternal salvation?
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