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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/but_its_dez on 2025-06-20 02:50:54+00:00.

Today I fucked up, although this was a couple of months ago now. For some context, I am an Australian who a couple of months ago went on a trip to the USA with a friend. Both of us being aussies, we are inexperienced with tipping so went with the advice of “always tip at least 15%”

One night during the trip we decided to go to a steakhouse. The two of us went all out, an appetiser each, big fat steak, cocktails throughout the meal. The food was great however the service wasn’t anything special so we decided on the standard tip of 15%. The waiter came around for payment and handed me an ipad-like device to pay on. I swipe my card to pay and a tip screen comes up and, thinking I’m doing the right thing, I type in 15 (on this screen there was no indication that what I was typing was dollars, cents or percentage), signed and handed the ipad back to the waiter. The ipad had a receipt printer on it so the waiter printed the receipt, looked at it and then handed it to me with a huff and walked off. I looked at my friend with a look on my face thinking “that was rude” but thought nothing of it and walked out.

It wasn’t until we both got back to our hotel rooms when I noticed that instead of tipping 15 percent as I had previously thought, I had accidentally tipped 15 CENTS on an order that was above $200. Usually I would have gone back and apologised, but by the time we were back at the hotel it was well past closing time of the restuaunt and we were leaving early the next morning, so there was no chance to apologise or fix my mistake.

I took this as a learning experience to ALWAYS double check how much I am tipping and check the receipt before I leave resuraunts

TL;DR: I accidentally tipped 15 cents on a 200 order at a steakhouse and looked my waiter in the eyes as he gave me the reciept, didn’t realise until it was too late to apologise or fix my mistake