AmiSight 5/18: My Completely Irrational Tipping Habit

I’ve realized I have a very strange tipping habit.

If I walk into a coffee shop, I almost always tip. If I take an Uber or Lyft, I always tip.

But if I go through a coffee drive-thru? I almost never do.

Same coffee. Same company. Probably the same person making the drink. Yet somehow my brain treats it completely differently.

I think part of it is human interaction. Standing inside a coffee shop feels personal. A drive-thru feels transactional. But logically, that distinction doesn’t really hold up.

It’s a reminder that a lot of our money decisions aren’t nearly as rational as we think they are. Context and social norms drive more behavior than logic.

Curious what others do. Are your tipping habits consistent, or do you also have weird unwritten rules?

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