Mike Carruthers:
How people relate to money is a fascinating subject.
Bernice
Kanner:
While we
say that money doesn’t mean a lot in our lives, twenty-two percent
of us would go up against the heavyweight boxer for a hundred
thousand dollars.
Bernice
Kanner, author of the book, Are You Normal About Money…
More
than half of us would sit in the middle coach seat of a very
long, cross-country flight rather than pay a hundred dollars
more for business class.
Half
of us would dress more revealingly to double our salaries, and
seven percent of people would even murder for ten million dollars.
Seventeen
percent of Americans, says Bernice, are so in debt that they
have little hope of ever getting out.
Only twenty
three percent of Americans are debt free. And three out of five
people - sixty percent - usually pay off loans early.
And there
are some interesting facts about how we tip waiters and waitresses.
People
tip better when the weather is nice outside, when they eat by
themselves, and when they pay with a credit card.
Waitresses
and waiters, their tips tend to go up when they serve the bill
on a tray - the fancier the better - when they touch the patron
on the arm or shoulder, when they introduce themselves by name.
And if
the waitress draws a smiley face on the bill, her tips tend
to go up, but, if the waiter does it, his tips tend to decline.
At SomethingYouShouldKnow.net.
I'm Mike Carruthers, and that's Something You Should
Know.
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