SKINNERFLINT Frank: I hate tipping, carry my own bags in hotels and will only pay £9.99 for a book
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FRANK Skinner says he resents having to tip people.
He also argues with hotel staff who try to carry his bags for a bit of extra cash and won’t pay more than £9.99 for a book.
The Brummie comedian, 63, said it eats away at him when he has to tip, no matter how small the amount.
Frank said: “I’m not a great tipper. I’m not a man who can just tip and then forget about it.
“I tip and then it nags at me what I could have got with that tip.
“I’m bitterly resentful about tipping. It makes me feel like I’ve been stolen from.
“I was in Japan where they don’t tip and I thought, ‘I could live here.’”
Skinner said when he checks in at a hotel he is immediately on guard in case the staff try to sting him.
He said he makes a point of carrying his own bags and even wrestles them away from hotel workers.
He added: “I make a real thing of carrying my own bags and they say, ‘No, no, no sir’ and I say, ‘I’m fine, I can carry a bag.’
“I don’t want them to come to my room and then show me how to open the curtains for a fiver or whatever it is.
“Charge me more and then I won’t have to even think about it, but I can feel it in my stomach – the whole tension of tipping.” He also revealed that he will not spend more than £9.99 on a book, even though he is a published author. Frank said: “I will often not buy a book I want if it is over £10.
“If it is a paperback and it is over £10 I won’t get it – £9.99 is my limit.”
He said two removal men recently delivered a new table to his home after lockdown and he felt the need to tip them £10 each after they assembled it.
But the thought of paying up played on his mind afterwards.
The comedian said: “They were among the first outsiders to come in. They didn’t have masks or gloves, but they brought it in and assembled it.
“I gave them £20 between them and then it nagged at me about what I could have got for that tip – and would it have mattered if I had offended two strangers?” ‘STUNG’: Frank hates handing over his cash as tips