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The tipping point

The tipping point

Day 241 Random Notes from my phone: Fork up: if I can, you can (this is an irk, more than a squib).

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Philippe du Col
Aug 31, 2023
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The point is tipping.

Non-tippers hit my tipping point, a curiosity propelled by the disparity between their glaring opulence and their forgetting to complete the Square iPad transaction by touching the $1, or 15% button.

“Sir, you forgot to complete the transaction,” I said, as the slinkers slink to the left to await their cortados (I can’t drink it b…

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