This one has potential!
The last time I tried to give them a tip, they got really pissed and wrote me up for double the ticket amount...I guess I must not have tipped enough.
Originally posted by: Special K
How much should I tip the officer who wrote the ticket? Would 15% of the ticket amount be OK, or am I being too cheap
Originally posted by: Leeroy
Originally posted by: allisolm
$250 for 9 mph over - that's harsh.
Add one more no vote here.
65 in a 50 zone is 15 over.
You fail at basic math.
Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: Leeroy
Originally posted by: allisolm
$250 for 9 mph over - that's harsh.
Add one more no vote here.
65 in a 50 zone is 15 over.
You fail at basic math.
9pmh ~= 15kmh.
you fail at reading.
Originally posted by: dugweb
Here's a situation that I found myself in. Just curious what AToT thinks the correct thing to do was. (not worth its own thread)
Last month I wrote a check to my landlord for my rent. But somehow I managed to grab a checkbook that was 6 years old from an old account that had been closed from innactivity. Just an FYI, when wells fargo says they are "reopening" an account that was closed for innactivity, they just mean they're giving you a new account. I didn't know this and just assumed all my Wells Fargo checks were from my correct account.
Anyways, the check bounced, and as soon as we found out what the problem was I made out a check from the correct account and gave it to him. But in the mean time, because the check bounced every time he stopped off to by some pop or something he was overdrafting and racked up $80 dollars in overdraft fees. I felt obligated to pay those fees for him, but my friend said I absolutely shouldn't, that it's not my fault he doesn't keep enough money in his account and spends money before checks clear. Either way, I was pissed off at the whole stupid situation, but should I be obligated to pay the $80 to him? I just payed it because i didn't want to be on bad terms with my renter :\
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Unless your feet were on the pedals, then NFW!
Originally posted by: dugweb
Here's a situation that I found myself in. Just curious what AToT thinks the correct thing to do was. (not worth its own thread)
Last month I wrote a check to my landlord for my rent. But somehow I managed to grab a checkbook that was 6 years old from an old account that had been closed from innactivity. Just an FYI, when wells fargo says they are "reopening" an account that was closed for innactivity, they just mean they're giving you a new account. I didn't know this and just assumed all my Wells Fargo checks were from my correct account.
Anyways, the check bounced, and as soon as we found out what the problem was I made out a check from the correct account and gave it to him. But in the mean time, because the check bounced every time he stopped off to by some pop or something he was overdrafting and racked up $80 dollars in overdraft fees. I felt obligated to pay those fees for him, but my friend said I absolutely shouldn't, that it's not my fault he doesn't keep enough money in his account and spends money before checks clear. Either way, I was pissed off at the whole stupid situation, but should I be obligated to pay the $80 to him? I just payed it because i didn't want to be on bad terms with my renter :\
Originally posted by: Scouzer
The story:
About three weeks ago both of us have to go on a work trip in a rental car for the day. He's 37, but I'm only 20 so I obviously cannot have the rental under my name nor drive the car.
He is a bad driver. Very aggressive, very fast and I kept asking him to slow down.
Today:
He gets a photo radar ticket for $250... 65km/h in a 50 zone roughly.
Should I feel obligated to pay for part of this?
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Why is ATOT so quick to jump to conclusions?
Are your coworkers good friends of yours? If he's just a terrible driver he's asking for it. If my friends and I went out to drive down the I-5 to LA and we got busted for doing 85, I would feel somewhat obligated to pay some of it becuse regardless who's driving, we would've probably driven around the same speed and getting busted for 85 on I-5 is ridiculous. If we got busted for 100, then... well I would not feel so obligated simply because I know that normally none of us would drive like that.
It just depends. If your coworker asks, then it might be a problem, but other than that I wouldn't worry about it.
Originally posted by: Scouzer
I was very tempted to come in here and say I paid it so this thread could spawn hundreds of pages...but I couldn't do it
Originally posted by: JohnCU
abso-fucking-lutely not, are you nuts?