The act of tipping has been around since at least the Middle Ages. However even today, tipping has its international fans and its foes. Some countries, like the U.S., embraced the tipping culture (it came here in the 1800s). Japan and China, on the other hand, frown on tipping and consider it to be petty and even rude.
However even in the countries where it’s customary to tip, there can be a difference of opinion regarding whether or not to tip people in certain professions and, if so, how much. Case in point? Hotel housekeepers in the U.K.
- Frommers suggests to not tip hotel housekeeping at all
- Accor says “…you can leave a token amount of you think the room cleaning service has been outstanding”
- The Sun (UK rag mag) quoted a former hotel housekeeper who suggested “Tip. ($10 (£7.50)/day, per person who stayed) If your stay is multiple days, tip every day you expect cleaning service. Seriously.”
All that being said, Adam Donovan, a hotel employee on the Isle of Wight has been receiving tips from a long-term guest for the past six months or so. However instead of slipping Donovan cash, the guest has so far gifted him eight Pokémon cards.
Each card has been graded (A graded Pokémon Card is a card that’s been sent to a professional grading company and graded for condition. That helps determine how much the card is worth) and it turns out that one of the cards is a promotional card from the second Pokémon movie released in 2000:
Its value is about $70! Pretty decent tip, huh?
Donovan posted the photo on Reddit, where it’s gotten over 50,000 upvotes and, to date, 1.3 thousand comments.
Several people were wondering if the guest was giving the cards away as “final gift” before an untimely self-inflicted death but Donovan said he’s spoken to the guest and they are just fine. The cards apparently simply don’t mean as much to them as they used to.
“The fact he gave them away really makes the experience so nice to receive something that at one point probably was truly sentimental to him,” the hotel worker said.
Donovan eventually posted all of the cards he’d gotten from the guest, to date:
Their values vary, according to one responder, from anywhere from about 10 cents to $70 or $80.
The rest of the conversation focused on Pokémon values, rabbit holes people have gone down in terms of that and other games, whose parents threw out what binders of cards, and lots of other Pokémon goodness that I have NO CLUE about LOLOL! But you can read the entire thread here (some parts of the thread may have adult language that is NSFW).
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