[palmer]

The Book of Virtues, if you have ever read it, is filled with many folk-tales.

I haven't read it. Here's my folk tale:

Attendent: A towel Mr. Bennett? By the way, I loved your last book: 'The Restroom Attendant's Book of Virtues'
Bennett: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. [hands attendent his towel and a twenty] Attendent: Thank you Mr. Bennett.

The moral: kiss Bennett's butt even if you haven't read the book.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Sounds like you ascribe to the moral... "Haven't read Bennett's book, tear him apart." He never Christened himself as the Virtue guru, the press did.

[Dianna]

Attendent: A towel Mr. Bennett? By the way, I loved your last book: 'The Restroom Attendant's Book of Virtues' Bennett: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. [hands attendent his towel and a twenty] Attendent: Thank you Mr. Bennett.

I'm sure it's much better for the attendant to work at a job which pays less. It would have been much more virtuous for Bennett to ignore the attendant and not tip him.

I used to work in a casino, occasionally I worked with high rollers. Once I was tipped a large amount by one man who was winning. I didn't kiss his butt, he wasn't arrogant. I assumed then, as now, that he was a nice man who was rather well off and thought it kindly to "share" with a woman who stood on her feet all evening making $7 an hour.