Dear Poppy,
I work at a local club where a lot of dancers come to dance. Only a few of the dancers drink alcohol. Most of them drink water. I make a living working for tips as a server. I just want to thank the dancers who tip me generously and to remind the others that they should leave a tip even if they are only ordering water.
Stiffed
Dear Stiffed,
You are absolutely right, Sugar. All dancers should remember that polite dancers when tooling around town to various dance venues should always support their dance venues by buying drinks (even bottled water) and tipping your servers. Don’t be a Cheapskate! Support your local venues so that you can continue dancing in those places.
Ms. Poppy Chiffon — the doyenne of dance, the baroness of ballroom etiquette, the sultana of Southern hospitality — is pleased to answer your dance-related questions. Here are a few queries that Poppy deigned to extract from her mailbag this week. If you have a question that you would like Poppy Chiffon to address, please e-mail her at askpoppy@dancestationusa.com. Ms. Chiffon regrets that she cannot respond individually to questions.
