Australian Tourist Overexplains Keeping 12,000 Dong Change From Vietnamese Bar Bill Rather Than Tipping Staff

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“But here,” Taylor continued, “I just really came in for a dingo’s breakfast anyway, and so I’d be absolutely rooted if I just laid my dong on the table like all the other tourists probably do. I mean, do you see a sign on my head saying ‘Another Sucker Tourist Here to Spend All Her Money in Vietnam’? I think that’s highly – HIGHLY – unlikely,” Taylor said, now shouting as if to lend thunderous validity to her argument.

Taylor then turned to her husband, Wayne, and ordered him to march straight out of the bar without so much as a thought of slipping any employee of the bar an Aussie tuppence for their efforts.

“Don’t even think about it, Wayne!” she clapped. “We need that for our Grab Taxi to the airport tomorrow!” she said, coldly calculating that although the 5,000-dong note Wayne had crumbled in his palm ready for a token hand-off to the barman could probably feed an entire Vietnamese family for a week, the money would be better overspent as part of their 2.7 million dong ($116) fare for the two-and-a-half kilometre ride to the airport.