This happened to me many times: I buy a $1.50 cup of coffee in a coffee shop somewhere, put a quarter in a tip jar, and promptly get a dirty look that says, "Anything less than a buck, don't even bother."
Of course, tipping a dollar on a $1.50 purchase is ridiculous; a quarter is a fair tip, if you decide to leave any. I basically see two choices: you can either not tip at all and receive the same amount of dirty looks but save some money, or tip a dollar once every four purchases and zero three out of four times, thereby spending the same amount of money as if you were tipping fairly all the time but decreasing the number of dirty looks shot at you by one-fourth.
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