出国前,我对小费的了解来自几本留学生手册。规矩看起来很简单,可到了国外才发现,小费虽小,学问却挺大,不是简单的加减乘除就能搞定的。到美国普度大学的第一个学期,我们课题组去芝加哥帮一家公司调试计算机系统。那家公司财大气粗,在五星级的韦斯特大酒店给我们每人订了一个套房。庆幸之余,我也有些犯愁,大酒店里的服务人员众多,停车员、行李员、门生,该给谁小费?给多少呢?我赶紧买来一本厚如辞典的《礼仪》,临时抱起佛脚来。那天,我们是坐计程车到酒店的,所以停车员这一关就免了。下了车,我抓住仅有的一个行李箱,生怕行李员抢上来帮忙,倒不是心疼那二三美元小费,而是我付小费的动作不过关。《礼仪》书上说给小费要做到“自然、隐蔽、温馨”。我不知道如何自然而隐蔽地把美钞塞进别人的手里。此后几天,出酒店时我尽量走侧门,以防礼宾和门生主动帮我截出租车,或向我推荐旅游景点,因为接受了他们的帮助,我就得“自然而隐蔽”地给 Before I went abroad, my knowledge of my tip came from several international students’ brochures. The rules seem simple, can be found abroad, tips are small, but the learning is big, not a simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division will be able to get. To Purdue University’s first semester, our research group went to Chicago to help a company debug a computer system. The company is rich and powerful and has a suite for each of us at the five-star West Hotel. Fortunately, I also have some worry, the hotel’s many service personnel, parking, porters, students, who should tip? Give it a few? I quickly bought a thick as a dictionary of “etiquette”, temporary hold From Buddha to foot. That day, we are taking a taxi to the hotel, so parking off this level will be saved. Get out of the car, I grabbed only one trunk, for fear of getting in to help the bellboy, it is not distressed that twenty-three dollars tips, but I tip the action pass. “Etiquette” book tip to do “natural, hidden, warm ”. I do not know how to naturally and subtly put the dollar into someone else’s hands. In the next few days, when I was out of the hotel, I tried my best to go sideways to prevent the concierges and students from taking the initiative to help me with a taxi or recommend tourist attractions to me. Because of their help, I had to give “natural and hidden”