I believe it is custom/tradition.

Never heard of that. Everyone I know tips according to what their bill is. Doesn't matter if I get a $30.00 bill at a table or at the bar, I tip on the $30.00.

I think if you ask your friends specifically if they tip the same % at a bar and table, they will tell you differently.

Why would you ask a bar person to do your dirty work for you?

No they definitely wouldn't. My friends tip on the bill. Never heard of anyone tipping less because someone else served them.

Got a haircut the other day and the barber was kinda smelly (BO). I didnt tell him, but guess I'll ask for some one else next time.

Oh, and by the way, I'm not so sure the contents of a purse are worth some one's life. I guess people with attitudes like mine are just enabling muggers.

I always tip more at a table than a bar. I think the waiter has more work to do waiting a table versus the same at the bar. Note: I did not say the bartender doesn't work as hard as the waiter. Also, the bar usually gets a % of the tips from the tables and a many times a "tip" from the waiter at the end of the shift.

Are we still talking about cigars, or guns, or just tipping?

it's easier to say what I would NOT have done and that's not make an ASS out of myself!

I would have done two things:
1) Don't involve the bartender
2) Mind my own business

Beyond that the rest of this thread is extraneous.

So if a slob sits next to you, who has no manners, and education=why is it upon you to surrender your dignity and space to the slob?

This is what our country has degenerated to-a bunch of whimps- move over let the slob take control-what a shame

When a slob invades YOUR space its no longer minding your business

He's not invading your space. He's in his own space in a chair which he has every right to do. No law against being a slob. The alternative is to move if it bothers you.

If you are at a public place (ie., a bar) It is not your space. The slob, as you describe him has the same right to be there as you do. Perhaps he might think you are an ass for asking the bartender to intercede on your behalf. Just cause you think he's a "slob", doesn't give you any rights in this instance.

One of the few times I didn't read every response to this thread but since the OP asked........

I would have moved to avoid the smell and not got myself worked up over some minor episode, but that's me.

I had a previous episode where I mentioned to mgmt that a couple was talking too loud, dancing in front of me at KB's, subsequently ruining a fine performance and they confronted me afterward. It wasn't an audience participation event. They claimed I should have talked to them directly, as they were nice people. Going forward, I would have liked to remove myself from the situation, as one never knows the reaction, of some people. Besides KB's was packed that night with reserved seating, so there was no place, to move to.

Earlier today, my wife and I were at the Taco Bell/KFC on 27/441 having lunch. A man and his wife sat down at the table next to ours and about 5 minutes into their lunch (which they were eating like pigs at the trough), the guy raised up one side just a little and loudly farted. I said "did you seriously just intentionally do that"? He and his wife both giggled and he said "oops". I looked at him and his wife and said, "I guess if you eat like a f'ing pig then you're going to act like a f'ing pig". We stared at each other for about 15 seconds and they then got up and moved across the dining area. That's the first time I've really been that p/o since I've been here. Filthy, nasty people.