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18. In-app tipping became a thing in Australia a couple of months ago, and keep in mind that tipping isn’t a thing in Australia. This story involves an American , who I guess was a tourist or here on business.

A few weeks back I picked up this guy in the city, and his pickup location was somewhere I couldn’t get to (closed to traffic). So I send him a message saying this, and I’m maybe 100m away on a side street, he’ll need to come to me as I can’t do any better.

He walks around to me, and it’s pretty obvious he’s pissed at me. Starts a rant about how bad my service is and it’s pretty terrible that I made him walk to me. Try to tell him that where he was is not a street I can actually drive down, but he goes on and on about not understanding the service business and all this shit. Gave up and just wrote him off as an arrogant yank cunt.

Drop him off at his hotel, 1-star him and move on. Look later and he tipped me $10 on a $5 ride. No idea if he felt bad afterwards and it was his way of saying sorry, or just the American tipping thing kicked in.