Stiffing Servers

I'd like to hold off on the homosexuality subject for just another week.

This post is coming about concerning the research paper I just wrote for the Advanced Composition class I'm taking this summer. It was the final paper, and in it we were required to address a problem in the community that we felt a compelled interest in above others. I chose to write about the steady increase in value of tips that waitresses and waiters are having to put up with recently in sit down restaurants.
I work as a waitress in the Delta Cafe in Edmond OK. We serve down-home Southern cooking and our main clientele consists of older people who live in the surrounding neighborhoods.
Last summer I could leave with anywhere from $10-15 an hour working there and this summer that average has dropped to well below $10.
I realize we are in a recession and the last thing you think about on a hot Oklahoma day is chicken-fried steak, but I have been ripped off so many times this week that I could not leave the issue standing any longer.
I DO NOT GET A PAYCHECK and if i do it NEVER totals over 20 cents. I LIVE OFF OF TIPS. If you come into the Delta Cafe and I look after you, or any one of the servers for that matter, you should probably bear this in mind. That goes for the vast majority of restaurants in the United States.
If I give you horrific service then feel free to stiff me, but if i try my very best and everything is just peachy, then i think that anything less than two dollars a person is a personal insult.
At the Delta we are required to go above and beyond most levels of service, and i feel that many of our regular customers have gotten far to comfortable with our friendly service. I live off of the gratuity you send my way. Do not tell me i was the best waitress you ever had and leave me little or no money. You might as well spit in my face.
Servers are treated like scum. Especially in Edmond with the hoity toity rich people that have never suffered in their lives.
Get a clue people.
You're stingy and disgusting attitudes toward servers makes me sick and i hope that you can get an understanding of how it feels to be on the lower end of the totem pole through this post.
Don't mess with the people who bring your food. We try very hard to make sure your dining experience is as pleasurable as possible. The least you could do is show your graciousness.
This rant is over.
Think twice next time.