Two Tips
I don’t expect anyone to tip me. But it does happen once in a while. Some days it might even happen twice. Maybe even twice in a row. Today was such a day.
I installed a backup camera in a Honda Ridgeline, and when the owner came to pick it up, he asked me if everything had gone smoothly. Well no, it hadn’t. The interconnect cable that came with the camera had a broken wire in it somewhere, I don’t know where. It took me a while to realize that’s what was wrong (“no signal” was all it said on the monitor), and it was more than a little difficult to remedy because the wiring was already done. I didn’t charge him anything extra for that though. Maybe that’s why he tipped me.
The second one was a 91 Camry that someone had messed with the wiring and so the new radio didn’t work at all once I had it hooked up. But I knew what to do about it, and that old Camry is an easy car to work on. I had quoted the owner $63 to do the install, but it ended up being less because she already had the trim piece and I didn’t use a wiring adapter because the wiring had been messed with. I did charge her for the extra time figuring out what to connect where, but her total still came out to only $55. Maybe that’s why she tipped me.
