Odd items in your tip cup?

[Joe Smith]

Alright so forgive me if this topic has already been started but, what are the three weirdest/coolest things someone has dropped into your tip cup? For me it was

1.Chuck E Cheese token
2.$100
3. A small coin shaped piece of metal which had the outline of an angel on top. Above the angel it said "a guardian angel, sent to watch over you"

[Corinne]

I got a coin that read: "Be my hot little pussy Cat." The worst tip ever.

[Greg Suekoff]

Green of the non-money variety (better than cash)... napkin art-oragami (creative but not better than cash) and finally i once had a better tip jar placed in my tip jar, "to increase revenue"

[Derek Dyson]

The worst things that I regularly find in the tip jar are
1. Trash - (somehow mistaking the tip jar for a trash jar full of money?)

2. Canadian coins - ( I would understand it if I lived up North, but this is Tulsa)

3. Religious tracts - (If these people would spend their money on something other than printing ridiculous fliers and adding new wings to their mega-church and instead, I don't know, feed and house the homeless... I might have some respect for them as a whole. But instead they worry that the tattooed kid making their coffee every morning with a Dawkins book next the espresso machine is on a direct path to eternal damnation....and if only he would take a look at their poorly produced and somewhat hysterical account of creation, then maybe, just maybe, he will forget everything he learned in all those years of college and instead revert to a bronze age understanding of humanity rife with magic and fairy tales)......sorry it just bugs me a bit.

[John Fogleman]

who tipped us weed? and what did you do with it?

-ive had, literally, the contents of someones pocket (a button, lint, random paper scraps, etc.)
-those stupid religious tracts that look like money, but when you see them and your hopes get up, you only come to find that you're a crappy person...buzzkill for sure.
-someone pumped syrup in our tip jar once. we had to wash all the money. and it smelled good.
-one time, this girl put a $20 bill in the jar, and my fellow barista and i were quite happy, until the girl came back up and said it was a mistake, took it out, and replaced it with a dollar. womp.

-one time someone tried to offer me cigarettes as currency to buy something. its not a tip jar story, but they actually thought it was a good idea and it would work. it didn't.

cavirett said:

1. Marijuana
2. foreign coinage
3. religious tracts

[Jesse -D->]

so your shop isn't in prison......probably better that way.

John Fogleman said:

who tipped us weed? and what did you do with it?

-ive had, literally, the contents of someones pocket (a button, lint, random paper scraps, etc.)
-those stupid religious tracts that look like money, but when you see them and your hopes get up, you only come to find that you're a crappy person...buzzkill for sure.
-someone pumped syrup in our tip jar once. we had to wash all the money. and it smelled good.
-one time, this girl put a $20 bill in the jar, and my fellow barista and i were quite happy, until the girl came back up and said it was a mistake, took it out, and replaced it with a dollar. womp.

-one time someone tried to offer me cigarettes as currency to buy something. its not a tip jar story, but they actually thought it was a good idea and it would work. it didn't.

cavirett said:

1. Marijuana
2. foreign coinage
3. religious tracts

[Jack Shipley]

A note advising to wash behind my ears. Just last night.

[Troy Reynard]

We got a plastic penny last week, and we get tips thrown in the dog treat cup all the time.

[Laurence]

Euros, Different Asian coins, south American coins, receipts, cigarette butts, a cigar, and arcade tokens

[Eli Kalen]

It would have to be a Old School NYC Subway Token.

[Eli Kalen]

Years ago I really got into looking for coins made out of silver.
Dimes, Quarters, Half dollars, Dollars from 1964 on down where
make of pure silver.

[EmilyA]

#1 - A used bandage - ewww...
#2 - An awesome earing - that I still occasionaly wear
#3 - Foreign currency - nothing too exciting

[EmilyA]

Oh yeah, and we occasionally get Chick-fillet free sandwich cards.