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An unidentified eater's alleged account of a cruel way to get better service gained significant traction online. The meme was based around a purported screenshot of five $1 bills on a table, with a knife holding them together. If the server did something the patron didn't like, the patron would ostentatiously take one of the bills away. The money, the poster explained, was meant to goad the server into providing better service. (No name was listed alongside the image.) A Facebook thread highlighting the meme was posted on 6 December 2016, and the picture was also highlighted in a Reddit thread for cheap bastards. Popular food blogger Darron Cardosa (a.k.a. The Bitchy Waiter) opined why he felt the boastful eater described by the meme was the biggest asshole on the Internet (emphasis his): It should be noted, though, that the stunt described in the meme was not without precedent. It was identical to the opening scene from an episode of the 1980s sitcom Cheers (title Rebecca Redux) in which a mouthy customer told bar waitress Carla (played by Rhea Perlman): Carla responded with her own proposal: that every time the customer did that, she would get to flick beer in his face. Eventually, she dumped the whole drink on him. Another NBC sitcom, 3rd Rock from the Sun, included a variant on that scene in the episode Sex and the Sally, in which Dick (John Lithgow) reinvents tipping by placing a stack of bills on the table and telling his waitress: The Facebook user who garnered the large response to the image told us that it had originated in a Florida restaurant's private Facebook group and was based on a user's sibling's actual experiment while dining out. We reached out to the person who posted the image seeking comment but did not receive a response.
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