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Sep 7, 2006

"Give like the rose gives its perfume -- effortlessly, unconditionally because it is its own nature." --Swami Vivekananda

$10,000 Tip On A $26 Tab

Two weeks ago, one of Cindy Kienow's regular customers left her a $100 tip on a tab that wasn't even half that. This week, he added a couple of zeros. Kienow, a bartender at Applebee's, got a $10,000 tip from the man — for a $26 meal — on Sunday. "I couldn't move," Kienow said. Kienow, whose father will have to take some time off work for surgery on both of his knees, said she hasn't decided what to do with the money. "I'd like to take care of my parents, since they always took care of me," she said.