Online donations pour in for waitress who was refused a tip because she's gay

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Illuminaughty

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the same Living Water is available to the lesbian waitress

The person who shafted her on the tip didn't offer her any living water. Just unwanted advice on her sexual orientation and an empty wallet. The customer made up an excuse to be cheap and not pay her and then added insult to injury with the letter.
 
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in case you missed it, I'm suspicious that the waitress actually wrote the note. there is no evidence available that the customers did so and the identity of the customers is mysteriously unknown

I don't think anybody reading this thread could have missed your suspicions. You have mentioned it repeatedly - ignoring that there is no evidence that the waitress wrote the note.
 
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Yes, it's a right any way you look at it.

You're missing my point.

in case you missed it, I'm suspicious that the waitress actually wrote the note. there is no evidence available that the customers did so and the identity of the customers is mysteriously unknown

blah blah blah...yes, I'm aware of your suspicions. And the cowards didn't sign their name to the note. Why is that surprising?
 
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I don't think anybody reading this thread could have missed your suspicions. You have mentioned it repeatedly - ignoring that there is no evidence that the waitress wrote the note.

That's the only thing he has though to keep this ridiculous dialogue going.

Is ..

She could be a liar.
 
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You mean where He pointed out her error of ways by having more than one husband? Good find :thumbsup:

First, he expressed His gratitude for her service in the manner customary in that time and place. Second, He did not scurry away after just leaving a note telling her that He did not approve of her living with a man she was not married to. Third, nowhere in that narrative does He tell her that having been married five times is an "error."

He neither forgives her nor condemns her anywhere in the narrative. And it is possible to read the encounter (I don't claim it is a correct interpretation or a natural reading of the passage, merely a possible reading) as a parallel to what he says about the water. That in her natural life she needed to attract man after man, and still was not satisfied (just as she's thirsty again after drinking natural water), but if she forms a spiritual relationship with Him, then like the Water of Life springing up in her, her relationship with Jesus will continue to grow.
 
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Actually, yes. The only time a customer is obligated to leve a tip is when the dining party exceeds a certain number and the customer is notified that the tip will be mandatory. But in a situation like this, a family of four, the tip is paid or withheld based on any consideration the dining party chooses.

No, Mach. You are expected to tip your wait staff anywhere you go. Mary and Joseph, show some class and respect service workers.
 
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there is no evidence available that the customers did so and the identity of the customers is mysteriously unknown
Mysteriously? Did you expect her to post the customers name and maybe include a picture and address so people could send her hate mail? Maybe she respects the persons privacy. Maybe she didn't ask the person her name to begin with. I didn't know the names of most the people I waited on when back when I worked at a restaurant.

I really don't understand why people find this story so far fetched and automatically assume the person must have invented it. Don't things like this happen on a regular basis? People can be rude mistreat other people. It happens. Heck, according to you it isn't even mistreatment and would actually be a good thing. Don't you think people occasionally do such "good" things?
 
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The waitress had the opton at the first sign f discontent to offer the customers a different server. Using her common sense, had she any, she could have taken the steps to allow the customers a more pleasant experience that met their expectations.

Not really.

I have worked plenty of shifts were I was the only server currently there (tonight, for example). So it would be either service from me or no service at all.

Then there is the issue that I have had to serve plenty of customers that seemed rude/upset/etc. If somebody asks for a different server then that is one thing.. However, most restaurants would not want a server to suggest that - from a customer's perspective it could seem like the server in question had a problem with them.

Not to mention that most places will have sections and/or rotation systems to assign tables to different servers - many managers/hostesses do not look kindly on someone not taking the table they were assigned.
 
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I don't think anybody reading this thread could have missed your suspicions. You have mentioned it repeatedly - ignoring that there is no evidence that the waitress wrote the note.

There is no evidence whatsoever she(the customer) wrote the note.

Just like there is no evidence I mowed my lawn today other than my lawn is mowed .
 
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I have worked plenty of shifts were I was the only server currently there (tonight, for example). So it would be either service from me or no service at all.

He has never had a job in a restaurant .

They are also divided in sections.
 
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The person who shafted her on the tip didn't offer her any living water. Just unwanted advice on her sexual orientation and an empty wallet. The customer made up an excuse to be cheap and not pay her and then added insult to injury with the letter.
I don't recall any advice given on the note.
 
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I don't think anybody reading this thread could have missed your suspicions. You have mentioned it repeatedly - ignoring that there is no evidence that the waitress wrote the note.
There's no evidence of who wrote the note at all
 
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Yeah but he didn't leave a NOTE and nothing.

He gave her Living Water.

Following Jesus's example, if you're going to point out the error of someone's ways, you have to give them some kind of wonderful, even miraculous gift.

Otherwise you're just a nasty old self-righteous Scrooge.

In addition, He didn't point out her sin until after she had accepted His living water.

Accepting Christ comes first--cleaning up sin is only possible after one accepts Christ. The natural man can't even recognize sin as sin until after accepting Christ.
 
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