I Finally Took a Stand On Tipping Entitlement

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Here in the United States, tipping a/k/a gratuities are totally out of hand. This topic has been mentioned here on myLot several times. It's EXPECTED that you're going to tip 20% at the very minimum for any sit-down restaurant meal. Not too long ago I bought something at a bakery and they gave me a receipt with a tip line on it. Uh, in a word, no. I am actually a very generous tipper because I know how hard people work and they generally deserve it. But I DON'T believe a tip is an entitlement for someone who provides poor service. Hubby is too embarrassed to leave less than a 20% tip even when we get poor service. But today, enough was enough for me. We went to a regular place that we go after church on Sundays for brunch. It was not crowded. We were sat at a booth and for 12 minutes, nobody came to our table. Then a server came, a woman, one that we'd never seen before. She absolutely REEKED of marijuana. The smell was sickening. I could hardly stand it. She came over, after our waiting for 12 minutes, and said, "I made you wait so that you'd be hungry by the time I got here. What do you want to drink?" I said, "We're ready to order our food too, if that's okay." She said, "No, that's not okay. I do one thing at a time and I'm not ready to take your order." Maybe 5 minutes later she came back with our glasses of water and took our order. We never saw her again. Well, she walked past our booth to other tables, nauseating me with that skunky smell of marijuana, but she never stopped at our booth. No checking up on us, no refilling our water, nothing. We had to go get her to ask her for our check. I was paying today via a scan code on my iPhone because we were tired of waiting and we didn't know how long it would take her to come back. The scan defaulted to a 20% tip. I thought, "Hell no!" I wanted to make a point. I left her $1.00. Was that an embarrassingly low amount? Yes. Did I do it on purpose? Yes. I didn't see the point in rewarding bad service. I know some of you won't see it my way, but I was tired of having to accept mediocrity.