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Kansas waiter's $20 tip was actually a Bible pamphlet

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Jan 12, 2016

Garret Wayman, 17, was excited to collect the $20 tip he saw peeking out from underneath a ketchup bottle on a table when he finished serving a group of customers.

But his excitement quickly turned to anger when he discovered the $20 bill was nothing more than a printed picture on a religious brochure.

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"Don't be fooled," the pamphlet read. "There is something you can have more valuable than money!"

Wayman, who works at Mulvane DK, a burger joint in Mulvane, Kansas, works many days a week to pay off $7,000 owed on his car. He said he was excited when he saw the bill because he had never received a tip of that size.

"I was just taken aback because I don't know if you've ever been a server, but whenever you see a $20 tip it's a big deal," Wayman told KAKE.

Some social media users called the incident "un-Christian-like."

"He just left that," Wayman told Tech Insider. "I wanted to tell him that I only make $3 an hour and bust my (expletive) at my job to make way less than I deserve, but he was gone by the time I had the chance to."
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