Do you ever hear a story and think, “This could literally only happen in America?” A perfect example of such a story was recently posted to the r/Atheism subreddit by a restaurant employee from Florida who encountered a particularly difficult customer who demanded her tips back after the world didn’t end.


Yes, according to the post, the customer was convinced that the world was going to end on April 8th, and tipped her $300, and one of her coworkers $777. She even wrote on one of the receipts, “In case you don’t rise on the 8th,” and asked other servers if they were Christian before launching into her spiel about how awful life will be for those left behind once the rapture takes place.



It’s nice of her to cushion the blow with huge tips, though!


Unfortunately, given April 8th has now come and gone with no rapture in sight, the woman returned to the restaurant and tried arguing that her tips were fraudulent and had been tampered with in an attempt to get her money back.


As OP explains, it’s impossible for servers to manipulate tip amounts as they bring the card readers to the table where guests can then enter their desired tip amount themselves. OP also explains that issuing a refund would be impossible since both she and her coworker have already received their tips in their paychecks and paid income tax on them.


Fortunately, the restaurant manager stood up to the woman and informed her that her money couldn’t be refunded. After that unsatisfying conversation, she “stormed out angrily to her Mercedes.” So she’ll probably be fine, financially speaking, assuming she didn’t buy the Mercedes as part of an end-of-the-world shopping spree.



For those wondering, this rapture rumor was the result of the total eclipse that took place in North America on April 8th. Since some people can never just let an eclipse be an eclipse, they were preparing for a Day of Judgment consisting of terrorist attacks, biological warfare and nuclear disasters.


To everyone’s relief, the eclipse passed without incident, unless you count all of the people who accidentally damaged their retinas by staring directly at the sun.