Do you get a lot of junk mail? I know I do especially at home or at least I use to until I learned who to get in touch with to stop a lot of it. This is how they word it on their site that I have listed below: Established in 1917, The DMA is the oldest and largest national trade association serving the direct marketing field. Members of The DMA market goods and services directly to consumers using such media as direct mail and catalogs, telephone, magazine and newspaper ads, and broadcast advertising.

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA), is the largest list broker in the US, they sell your name and address to people that want to target you for their products. Contact them directly with a postcard that contains the date, your name and address, and sign it. Be sure to include any variations of your name, and your maiden name if you’ve recently gotten married. Instruct them to remove your name from their mailing lists. Send the postcard to:

Direct Marketing Association
Mail Preference Service
P.O. Box 643
Carmel, NY 10512
Tel: 1- 212-768-7277
www.dmaconsumers.org

They also have a lot of information on their site to help you the consumer learn how to protect yourself online. Believe me this is a very useful and you should be aware.

When you get publications in the mail that you don’t want, contact the toll-free number listed and request to be removed from their mailing list. They will appreciate your call because it will be saving their advertising dollar.

I did waitress work for a lot of years. It’s not always easy to be pleasant all the time, but if you depend on tips then it’s pretty obvious you have to be. I have had people walk out without paying their bills, Thank God I worked at places that don’t make you responsible for it, but if you make a mistake in pricing then look out there goes your tips for the night.

You may be surprised to know that people still do not know how to tip. Tip stands for To Insure Promptness by the way. I always liked it when people did tip me at the beginning, some do to make sure they get excellent service, but I always gave everyone good service even when I knew they were lousy tippers because I figured sooner or later they would come around to my way of thinking and leave a decent tip.

I feel sorry for waitresses because they are in the middle. If someone doesn’t like their food and sends it back the chef blames you and fusses and the customer is already ticked and blames you and you did nothing but serve the stupid horrible food. Believe me I learned to recommend certain foods after that happened to me several times and if they ordered something different than I suggested and didn’t like it then believe me I refused to take any blame. I would then tell them to hold on I would get the manager for them and I let the manager in the middle instead of me.

I was waiting on 2 couples one night and they were very well dressed and you could tell by the way they talked that they thought they had class. They ordered 2 bottles of wine, had expensive appetizers, then ate their Lobster and steak dinners , had dessert and coffee and after dinner drinks. I thought well this will be a nice gratuity, but guess what?

When he paid the bill he handed me a quarter and told me he couldn’t afford a tip because he had just bought a new car. I almost laughed in his face because it was hilarious, it pays to have a good sense of humor sometimes otherwise you might cry and I hate to cry. At any rate I usually just chalk that kind of stuff up to stupidity. This night I smiled at him kindly and told him it looked like he needed the quarter more than me and thanked him for his business and turned and walked away.

You can never judge a book by it’s cover. I have had very poor looking people with no couth leave fantastic tips. To my way of thinking, If you can’t afford a tip go to a fast food place. However if your not going to tip please do not try to monopolize my time. I have to make a living by waiting on people that do leave that 20 percent. After all the Government says I make at least 8% gratuity on all food sold and taxes me. The nice people that do tip make up for the ones that don’t so things usually equal out.

I had a nice young man in Reno sit at my booth and he apologized for taking up my space for a grill cheese and a glass of water. We were pretty busy and the faster you can turn over the people the more money you make. I assured him it was perfectly okay. I really wasn’t expecting a tip, but there laid 2 nickels, a dime and five pennies and a picture drawn on a napkin of me with the words, I wish I had more money to leave for a tip because you are a very good waitress. That was one of the best tips I ever received. I still have that napkin tucked away.

Katmandu is the capital city of Nepal, near the Vishnumati River. Katmandu is home to a lot of Buddhist and Hindu temples and palaces., So why shouldn’t our hero be there since he does study spirituality.

The only problem is he has to infiltrate a political ring that is trying to destroy every thing that a thinking man holds dear. This man knows everything. He took courses on everything relevant to his job but, and this is a BIG BUT he never counted on being a cosmetologist.

He found his best friend in York,PA and asked him to give him a crash course and of course he did, but this was for oriental hair and not Caucasian and he also gave him his oriental license to use, so he had a little surgery to make himself look like his friend and took over his identity in Katmandu, but remember this is pretend.

He was not expecting his CIA boss’s wife to walk in with her bleached blond hair and 2 inches of dark roots wanting a bleach job from the most talked about man in town. Did he have a clue?

He didn’t realize that workers had been working on the stones outside using acid to clean the stones and in the small environment everything was stacked together on the table, so when he went in to mix the bleach oops..mixed the wrong thing.

Well needless to say, our wife became the poster child of cosmetology stupidity and our poor hero got the BURN. Will we ever know? Watch the series coming the 28Th of June.
USA Network’s Burn Notice See what really happens!