Lileks: Want Fries With That? How About a Heap o’ Politics? Wait. What?
6th July 2012
I’m not saying the waitress was a Communist, but when you’re wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of a Communist, the customer wonders how to tip. Maybe patrons should run out of the restaurant without paying, so they don’t perpetuate the system of capitalist oppression? Not sure what the etiquette is supposed to be here. Except that when you know the guy on the T-shirt said, “I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood,” you’re less inclined to order the hamburger rare.