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To tip our street cleaner?

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plantsitter · 20/12/2013 22:52

I am a SAHM and I see the guy who cleans our street very often. He works really hard in all weathers and takes a chair round with him and sits on it on the pavement to eat his lunch. Sometimes I have seen him doing this using the tree in our front yard as shelter when it's raining. Basically I think he does a really good job and doesn't seem to take much of a break.

Today I gave him a Christmas card with a tenner in it. I thought that he probably doesn't get paid much and a tenner was an appropriate amount.

DH thinks this is not usual and that I may have embarrassed the guy. I do hope not but it's done now. What do you all think? Was it the wrong thing to have done?

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Crowler · 21/12/2013 10:18

I'm on the fence about it being patronizing. I probably wouldn't do this for this reason, but I'm guessing he was happy to get it.

I do tip the garbage guys because this is a service for each specific house and incidentally they wish everyone a merry christmas in the weeks leading up to Xmas which I take to be a subtle (not subtle?) solicitation.

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