RubyD 's definitions

Flea

A person who doesn’t tip or tips very small amounts in a bar or restaurant. Refers to people who, like a flea, metaphorically have arms that are too short to reach down to their pockets.

In the hope of getting a decent tip, the bartender presented the bar tab to the person that he knows tips well, not to the flea next to him.

by RubyD March 21, 2025

flea

A bad tipper; someone whose “little arms are too short to reach down into their pockets”.

My friend Chris is a flea. He tips the bartender only small amounts, certainly smaller than I do.

by RubyD March 12, 2025

Flea

Someone who gives very low tips; in a bar or restaurant; a bad tipper; someone who, like a flea, has (so to speak) arms that are so short, they cannot reach into his pockets.

Hoping for a good tip, the bartender presented the bill to the guy in the red shirt, not his friend. That’s because the friend is a flea.

by RubyD May 2, 2025

Flea

A low tipper in a bar or restaurant. Refers to someone who, like a flea, has arms that are too short to reach down into his/her pockets.

The bartender served a pair of guys and, hoping for a good tip, presented the bar tab to the guy he knew was not a flea.

by RubyD March 13, 2025

Supreme Court and Federal Courts Building

The official name of the court building at Kent and Wellington Streets in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Sometimes it is colloquially and erroneously called "The Supreme Court Building" (even by experienced journalists) because it houses the Supreme Court of Canada. But it is officially called the "Supreme Court and Federal Courts Building" because the Federal Court of Appeal and the Federal Court also both regularly sit in their own courtrooms within the building.

I'm going to the Supreme Court and Federal Courts Building to watch a Federal Court of Appeal hearing.

by RubyD February 10, 2025

Uber Fail

When someone suddenly displays their uber score to someone, thinking their score is higher, and discovers their score is lower.

He took out his phone at the steakhouse, shoved it in his dinner partner’s face, and said “my uber rating is higher than yours”; oops, that was an uber fail, as his rating, 4.97, was lower than his dinner partner’s rating, 4.98.

by RubyD August 25, 2025

Traffic Tics

Uncontrollable tics that involve the middle fingers of one or both hands

child in car: why is that man his finger pointing upward.
mom in car: dear, he just has a case of traffic tics.

by RubyD September 29, 2008