Christmas Tips

Just been wondering if a certain curmudgeon from Leigh will be giving the binmen a tip this yuletide.

Managed to rid my mind of a naughty joke about a lady and a milkman, and Mr Cooper's teabag ('Have a drink on me'), but then wonered how common tipping is compared to days gone by.

A guide

'Dustmen: Councils are beginning to prohibit the dustman from soliciting a Christmas box (many a householder has cowered behind the net curtains when the dustmen come calling). However it is still quite common to thrust a £5 note in your dustman's hand, while muttering "have a Christmas drink" or words to that effect.'

I'd consider that guide a load of rubbish.

Black, brown, green, and blue £5 each

A lot of people don't have money like that at their disposal.

Oooohhhhhh, that very naughty joke is back in my mind.

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We've found the level, have we?

I can't remember how much the woman was told to give the milkman.

Christmas Tip - 'Never eat yellow snow.'

Christmas Tip - Get drunk before the washing up starts

Do you give the bin men a tip at Christmas, Dostaf? Does anyone else?

I'm always happy to advise them, Jo Anne. Whatever the season.

He has a lay in on bin days

I do appreciate the work they do all year round, but, like them, am a rubbish tipper. Imitation is the highest form of flattery though.

And the window cleaner it advised about corners.

Isn't it Mache who calls his window mon Zorro?

Zorro

Better cross words than cross swords.

I'm trying to remember which shop I was once in and peed off with the fact that the cheeky sods had a tip box on the counter.

They wont be getting one off me.... I have to catch a bus to find my bin when they empty it.... if they empty it... DAM THOSE BIN MEN!

Bah! I give them all a humbug, whether they deserve it or not.

Are you minted then, Kenee?!

Not any more

Our paper shop has an owner of a certain Nationalalty, And in the pat has asked fot tips for the paper delivery lads & girls, But i have been told that he takes his share first, so it will be given to the lad as he delivers,

Tipping paper lads and girls is fair enough.

Shop I had in mind was just a corner shop type. Only employees were owners. Cheek!

A guide to tips at work www.gov.uk

A tip for you men

Dont buy her sexy underwear for Xmas

I know that sounds daft. But while even the most romantic woman might find it sexy, she's more inclined to think you're a pervert. And you're selfish. After all, this isn't for her. It's for you.

you mean imontquay becomes imintquay

inont,? have you been imbibing.

Improved it

peawapp will show what utter comtempt he has for the Binmen by giving them tickets to watch his beloved Leigh Rugby.

I usually give them a tip in the 4:30 at Doncaster!

In the 60s my grandad was a dustbin man, he would haul a heavy bin onto his back, carry it to an open dustbin wagon and haul it over the side an disappear briefly in a cloud of ash his eyes red and streaming from the dust. He stank of all kinds of nasty stuff... and he did this whatever the weather. He deserved his tip!

Today I take the bin out to the pavement, making sure the handle is pointing out so the poor bin men don't have to turn it around, I make sure the lid is fully down and the bin not overfull, and I make sure I put no black bags around it so the poor bin men don't have to strain picking them up and carry them 3 yards to the wagon. I also hike halfway up my street to get it back after it has been emptied employing the powerlift and just abandoned.

I deserve the bloody tip!

edited to correct dodgy grammar and typos.

No tip from me. They refused to empty the green bin of the man who lives next door, he is seventy three years old. He was told it was too heavy. He had dragged it down his path and then had to drag it back.

I knew an old chap who gave the binmen a tot of whiskey every time they emptied his bin. It became a ritual and the binmen were eager to bring his bin from behind the house and put it back afterwards. For them it was Christmas every week.