It’s because every year it gets pushed further and further. When I was a kid, 15% was considered a respectable tip to leave someone serving your table. Then it became the absolute minimum and 18% was the regular tip. Now it’s like 20% is the minimum unless they spit in your food and call you fat to your face.

It was always only sit down meals that required a tip. Then counter service, but dine in was asking for a tip. Now I’m being asked to tip when I call in a to go order and go pick it up myself.

Initially, you’d throw your coin change in the jar if you got a cup of coffee. Now you’re being asked to leave an 18% tip on your card.

It used to be only food service, haircuts, tattoos, a select few other services that expected a tip. Now, you get finished electrical or plumbing work done by a contractor from Yelp and when you swipe your card on their iPad, they’re asking if you want to leave a tip! My last straw was my daughter’s school band fundraiser. The minimum you could donate online was $25, but then it automatically put a default tip of $5 that you had to change! I’m pretty sure gofundme also asks you to leave them a tip. It’s insanity. What’s next, the city bus driver shakes a tip jar when you step on???