Jay Nordlinger had an unusual experience with a taxi wrangler at the Dallas airport yesterday:
The man put my suitcase in a taxi’s trunk. I handed him a tip. He said, “No, no, we’re not allowed to take that.”
I have been a fair number of places over the years — and I bet I could count refusals of a tip on one hand….There is something I tell people who think they don’t like Texas: Just go there. That’ll cure you. Texas is distinctively hospitable, and the food, girls, etc., cannot be surpassed (though they can be matched).
For what it’s worth, “hospitable” is not the same thing as “airport authorities don’t allow employees to accept tips.” The former is a trait of people who are just being nice. The latter is something that CEOs force on their low-paid employees. There’s a difference.
