Soldier refuses to tip waitress telling her serving his country was good enough

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Is serving your country as a soldier a good reason for refusing to tip a server in a restaurant? Apparently, if a Facebook post that went viral this week is the real deal, at least one former soldier believes it is — and that he is exempt from the ordinary practice of leaving a tip after a meal due to “the freedoms I provided.”

Is the soldier justified? Or is he just being a first-class jerk?

Here’s what happened. The story first surfaced on the Facebook page of Ranger Up MIiltary and MMA Apparel, a business that, as the name implies, sells “shirts for the military and the patriotic Americans who love the men and women of the Armed Forces. The guys that own this company either were or are still in the military,” according to the page.

The Ranger Up page also lists the company’s Number One priority as “AMERICA. Nothing like her anywhere, anytime, in the history of the world.” Right after that, “Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, Airmen, Coastguardsmen, Firemen, and Police Officers.”

But when the Ranger Up guys saw the following photo, of a meal receipt from a Red Robin restaurant franchise, they remarked, “We’re going to file this in the ‘Don’t Be That Guy’ folder.”

This is the receipt they were talking about, in a post that went up Sunday and has already been shared nearly 2,000 times.

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