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i saw Tony at Disneyland Paris last summer. He was with eva and his family. I was with my niece and they take a picture with her, they were very nice.
I outrebounded Oberto once
i saw Tony at Disneyland Paris last summer. He was with eva and his family. I was with my niece and they take a picture with her, they were very nice.
I've personally met Tony Parker and Sean Marks. Both great guys. Also a non-Spur, but overall nice person: Bill Walton.
As far as Manu, not only I know him personally, I've met who is my wife today through him. I definitely owe him being one of the happiest guys around.
While I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a friend of him, he always remembers us and comes talk to us when he's in town with the Spurs.
The team pays for player's salary and a player can make extra income thorugh commercials or other business ventures. I dont deny tv stations contributes team's income. But huge part of a basketball club income comes from tickets and merchandise sale, namely: jerseys, bobbleheads, team shirts with player's character, posters, etc. The one who's willing to spend more than $100 for a piece of original jersey is definitely a fan. So fans did contribute to his income. Thats the reason why there is a difference in terms of big and small market. It is believed that in some areas people tend to spend more on those things compared to the average spending of fans as a whole market.
If I give you a bank. will you keep the change for me?
One time at a Open practice, I left my spot in line to meet Pop to go talk to Rasho, whom I had met before but have always preferred to Pop.
I asked Rasho to take a picture with me. He said okay. As I stood by him, I looked up at him and with all the admiration in the world said, "You're tall."
( I had a better speech rehearsed but Rasho was too cute and made me forget it all.)
Rasho laughed at my obvious observation and said, " Not really."
Another time, I was trying to tell Manu in a noisy room that I was " Sweetpea" on his fan forum, where I had spoken to him numerous times.
Manu misheard at first and said, " You're sleepy?"
I am sure he wondered why on earth I would be telling him that.
Malik was one of the nicest Spurs I think. The three opportunities I had to speak to him he was always very friendly and gave me his full attention.
With a lot of celebrities, you feel nervous and rushed, as if the person has better uses for their time than to spend it with you.
That was never the case with Sho, Gino, or Malik.
Timmy I have never really spoken two- both because I have only seen him up close three times and am always too in awe of him to formulate words.
With fans, I have always seen Timmy as the strong silent type but I have never known him to be unpleasant, except to obvious autograph hounds.
Beno was always nice to me, with the exception of one occassion.
But for that one, I was able to pay him back the same night, by personally convincing Big Kevin to make Beno sing "Jingle Bells" solo for the crowd that had gathered for the appearance Beno was getting ready to make.
Merry Christmas to me.
Tony has never responded to me at the railing, but I have never really tried to get know him as I have the others.
This year, I want to meet Hedo and then I can retire as a Spurs stalker.
Can you imagine what would happen to me?
Can you imagine what would happen to me?
I met Malik before a game at the dome once at the Spurs shop. He was cool as we had a ’99 champs flag and he signed it and bought a bear with his number on it and signed it and gave it to us. Then he took a bunch of pics with us and even took a pic of my ex and I. He was joking around and acting dumb but that is what was cool about him
You and your friends our waiters and you don't know what it means when someone leaves .25 cents. Your friend sucks as a waiter. My wife was a waitress way back and we generally leave 20% unless the service sucks.The whole point of this thread was to share experiences that ppl had with spurs players. One of my stories had to deal with my friend waitering on Parker. He gave a quarter and was very bad on his part since he could've just left nothing. I believe my friend that he did not gave him bad service because its freaking Tony Parker! How many times do you have the chance to see him in person and especially wait on him. You certanly wouldn't treat him bad unless he was a to you first but even then, you would try to see the positives out the whole experience.
Also I continue to pin point my point across that I do not think parker is a because of only this but because from other experience (Spurs open practice, stated earlier) he was too y in front of spurs fans with his actions.
I base my likings of spurs players based on their actions on and off the court. One thing is that you can play great basketball but even great basketball doesn't make you a great people person...just ask Ron Artest and dude that got punched by him.
You base your opinion on your friend and open practice, practice. OK you know Tony.
Dude, leaving nothing could mean you forgot or just don't tip. When you leave .25 cents it means you remember to tip, but your service sucks. Get it?
I get that you do not understand much. How many people do you know that "forget" to tip? I have never once forgot to tip someone. If the service was bad, you know it. If you are a waiter and are rude, you realize what you are doing. If you are intentionally ignoring a table to focus on others, you know it. So if you get a bad tip, or no tip you understand why it happened.
So your saying they get the bill, look at it, pull money out to pay but forgot that a tip needs to be included as they are looking at the bill and their money simultaneously? Or if you use a credit card to pay, hand it to the waiter, they go charge it, you have to wait until you get your card back and then sign the receipt right under where it says tip and you forget?
WTF? No I get that you don't understand. Where in the did i say that.
This is common practice known among waiters. My wife was one. If you leave a quater it means you did not forget to tip, but believed your service sucked. Is it that hard to understand.
You said right there that they forgot. That is just the worst logic as I already explained.
You do not understand. You can make a point by leaving no tip rather than leaving the quarter. Leaving a quarter just makes you look petty. If you have that big of a problem with the service, file a formal complaint and tell the waiter you will not be leaving a tip.
But we have already discussed this at length in this thread. Feel free to leave a quarter "to make your point", I am sure that waiter really gives a damn what you think.
You have no clue, look what you highlighted on my qoute and your response. If you can't comprehend, no use in trying. Bye MLK.
I meet Doc Rivers right after his last season, we were eating next to him. Great guy.
I saw Tim and AD at Pizza Hut and just walked by them and tapped both of them on the shoulders and said good game.
My wife meet Sean E. before he was married to his first wife, he tried to ask her out. We were already married, she still teases me every now and then saying she could've been married to a Spur. LOL.
Do you see what happened? You said they could of forgotten to leave a tip. I then responded by explaining how it is nearly impossible to forget to leave a tip. I even included the reasons and provided examples that proved it would be very hard to forget. How can you not see the link between you saying someone could forget and my response to that by showing you how it would be extremely difficult to forget?
Is calling me MLK a bad thing? Why don't you try and take things in context, it was a joke between Kori and I that highlighted the fact I am a more passive person and she is a more prove a point bluntly person. Get a clue.
played golf with nazr one time at quarry. he took lessons from a friend of mine and they were playing 9 holes. got invited. very very nice but very quiet also. he mentioned about how they really werent supposed to play golf but it was before season started just practicing. he left after 9 holes to pick his wife up from airport, but a good experience.
I met Tim Duncan back in '06. Of all places at CompUSA. He was WAITING IN LINE for the PC repair/support with his desktop under one arm. I walked up to him told him "I'm big fan Mr. Duncan. Nice to meet you" and shook his hand. He then said "It's nice to meet you too.", but he didn't sound as excited as I was. Go figure
Ok last time i'm going to attempt to explain to your litte brain. You keep going back that i said THEY, I said you, meaning people in general....and yes its plausible for people to forgot to leave a tip, not likely but possible. I never said THEY could've forgot. I'm stating reasons why he didn't JUST not leave a tip.
Now, you keep stating it would've been better to leave no tip (leaving the waiter to conclude he wasn't a tipper) or to complain to mgmt.
By leaving .25 cents (general rule that you never heard of) he's telling the waiter that he does tip, didn't forget, had enough money etc.., but felt his service was horrible. Most people do this instead of complaining. What don't you get? I don't complain unless I was insulted or my food was bad, not because the wait staff is horrible.
My little brain...
Ok last time i'm going to attempt to explain to your litte brain. You keep going back that i said THEY, I said you, meaning people in general....and yes its plausible for people to forgot to leave a tip, not likely but possible. I never said THEY could've forgot. I'm stating reasons why he didn't JUST not leave a tip.
Now, you keep stating it would've been better to leave no tip (leaving the waiter to conclude he wasn't a tipper) or to complain to mgmt.
By leaving .25 cents (general rule that you never heard of) he's telling the waiter that he does tip, didn't forget, had enough money etc.., but felt his service was horrible. Most people do this instead of complaining. What don't you get? I don't complain unless I was insulted or my food was bad, not because the wait staff is horrible.
You are a human complaint
You will complain because the food was bad, but not if the service was bad enough to make you leave a .25 cent tip?
If you want to make all these assumptions then maybe what you say could be true. But for most adults with any kind of logical sense about the way the world works, no tip = bad service. 99.99% of waiters would assume that if a person did not leave a tip, that it was because they did not like the service. Not because they "forgot" or just do not tip.
Leaving a .25 cent tip says the same thing, but does it in a rude way. That would be like me arguing with you and instead of saying: "I respectfully disagree", I would say: "Your have a little brain". See the difference. The same message is conveyed but one makes you look like a prick. Same with leaving a .25 cent tip. Be a man, tell the waiter or manager to their face that you did not appreciate the service and that you will not be leaving a tip.
If service is bad because they are just bad waiters or new or zoned out, then you do not leave a .25 cent tip do you? No, you leave a discounted tip, say 5-10%. If they are rude and that is why the service was bad, you leave no tip and you leave a note or tell them to their face. Leaving a quarter IN MY OPINION is just petty.
Be a man
Again, you have no idea. I've stated over and over its a known way of telling a waiter. My wife was one, its common practice, but ok, I'm not being a Man.
I have 3 brothers that are waiters and we have discussed this many times. I am agreeing with you, I have clearly stated that leaving .25 cents = no tip with regards to the message sent. I am aware that it is common practice. Just because it is common does not make it right, it makes you look petty.Be a man
Again, you have no idea. I've stated over and over its a known way of telling a waiter. My wife was one, its common practice, but ok, I'm not being a Man.
If you would take the time to read my posts instead of just getting argumentative, you would see that.
Racism used to be a common practice, crime is common are those things good? You saying I have a little brain is the result of you being rude and petty. You could of easily just disagreed, but you took the low road. Same thing, but I guess in our society, people are commonly rude and petty, guess that makes a point.
it is your option that it makes you look petty
if the waiter sucks he does not deserve a tip because he did not earn the tip
it is not right to give something for a deed nto done
unless the guess just wants to give a serve a GIFT
some posters feel it is ok if the service sucked and leaving a quarter is better then nothing
I have only run into a few Spurs. Horry at HEB. He was cool. It was around noon and all I did was say hi. He responded and just smiled. I ran into Manu at the Apple Store at La Cantera. He was very cool and was cool with taking pictures and signing. His wife didn't look too into it though. I ran into Malik at North Star. He was pretty much on his phone the whole time there. He did acknowledge people waving to him. DRob was the best though. He talked and posed for a picture. He is the most down to Earth of them all.
manu is smart he buys apple and sucks on bill gates the greedies idiot in the world
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