With the recent revelations about the forthcoming A-Rod book about Alex Rodriguez’s habits with tipping at Hooters made me want to comment on the matter. Actually, it’s more to put it into perspective.

Let’s say A-Rod gets a bunch of his friends together, goes to Hooters and goes crazy and ends up with a $200 tab. Now I haven’t been to Hooters in year (honest) so I don’t know how feasible it is to spend that much, but let’s just say he did. Being the stand up guy that he is, he of course is picking up the tab for everyone. So when he leaves his 15%, the tip ends up being $30.

Now if you take $30 and figure out what percentage that is of his 2008 salary ($27 million if you are scoring at home) and take that same percentage and apply it to someone who has a $100,000 salary, do you know what it equals?

12 cents. And that is if you round up. 12 cents!!!

That means that $30 to A-Rod is the same as 12 cents to like your average engineer with like 10 years experience. Regardless of how much you make though, do you know anyone that make a stink about 12 cents? I have a quarter on my desk right now that I would throw out the window if someone dared me to.

Yet another reason, A-Rod is so amusing.