leaving a reduced / non tip to a server at a restaurant for failure to bring you a drink refill (or even ask if you want another).
The rattlesnake is shaking your ice to try to get their attention.
The rattlesnake is shaking your ice to try to get their attention.
When you eat at a restaurant and your drink runs dry. The server, for whatever reason, will not come by to give you a refill. You summon the "no tip rattlesnake" by shaking the ice in your glass to try to get their attention. You either do not get a drink, or it takes forever.
by Steve Baril October 4, 2008