100 Stories by Adam Nathan

100 Stories by Adam Nathan

🏆🏆🏆 Ask Tip! — Winning Submission

A reader from “South Philly” responds to Nurse "I'll Break Her Nose" struggling with a rhinoplasty colleague that cheats on tips on girls night out and may be overdosing patients on Brevital.

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Chris Nathan
Aug 09, 2023
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A lucky reader responds to our challenge about equitable tipping among a group of nurses who meet for Friday night drinks. Our reader wins a $1.32 prize through Venmo, although he has yet to supply his Venmo address, and our CFO is pestering me.
Full disclosure, family members are not qualified to win except when there are exactly zero other submissions. I can neither confirm nor deny at this time.
I include a link to our winner's Substack page which has exactly zero posts. A giant goose egg. In fact, that should be the name of his newsletter. “Goose Egg Posts.” I include this link to shame him into writing something because he is a really, really good writer comment provider on other people’s posts. My sources inform me he is waiting for the “perfect post” to get started. Yawn. Let’s get off the dime, brother pal.
I was very tempted to change “Break Her Nose” to “Beak Her Nose” (sic) for 281 reasons both political and professional, but I could not get “footnote” to work within “Style …

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