Just read another post on AB Re: tipping.
Just why do we 'tip' some professions, eg taxi drivers but not others eg bus drivers? They both do the same job but somehow we reward one and not the other?
I might leave a tip if I ate in a restaurant but wouldn't 'tip' a McDonalds worker. Again, doing the same job (serving food) but why the disparity?
I went to a newly opened McDonalds in Thailand. It was a bizarre experience because the staff treated us like we'd just walked into a Michelin starred restaurant.
I once saw a new one with a queue three blocks long - it was in Budapest and I think it was the very first behind the Iron Curtain, before the wall came down, and everyone wanted to try the benefits fo western civilisation.
Taxi drivers long ago, would get out of their cars and knock at your door when they arrived, help with any luggage one may have, and then open the cab door for you to get in.
Strange though in the days when one was served personally at one's filing station, the attendant would not only fill your car, but would also check your oil level, water coolant and then clean your windscreen, yet one never tipped them.
I tend to tip those that provide a personal service to me - so hairdressers, taxi drivers, delivery drivers, waitress and bar staff serving me.
Bus drivers are providing a vehicle to service many therefore not personal to me so I don't tip.