dilemma and a beef

so i have a dilemma...and a beef. neither are big deals. but i'm sitting here waiting for some good ol' bon jovi and aerosmith to download and i was suddenly struck by the oddest phrase...

bonus track.


a friend of mine, mike, was recently speaking at one of our retreats and went on a little mini rant about the usage of the word "random". it gets said around here ALL the time...in fact (and this is really a post for a different time) there's a lot of word abuse that happens around where i work. but i'm not going to get into that at this point. anyways, mike ranted lightly about how random is seldom EVER used correctly and the abuse is plastered all over facebook. most of us (i would like to proudly say that i DO NOT one) have a photo album on our profile page that is called random. well folks, sorry...it's entirely likely that the photos contained in said album are not random.

but the beef is not about the word random. it's about bonus track. i never quite understood why musicians would have a bunch of songs listed on an album and then list "bonus tracks". why wouldn't they just list those songs with the rest of the album? i realize that some artists still put hidden tracks on their albums but...they don't put "hidden track" on the album booklet...??? it's just very confusing to me. bonus would like extra...not included in the original...if they put it on the album cover - it's not bonus - it's standard issue included.

it's like telling someone that i'll show up for work and then actually showing up for work. that's not a bonus (well, unless i don't normally show up for work)...it's just...well it's nothing. it's normal, included, standard issue.

moving on...

THE DILEMMA...

as i mentioned a couple days ago - i'm getting a new bed. it comes on tuesday! that means i only have 3 nights of horrible-over-used-mattress sleep left. and the anticipation of said new mattress is making the sleeps even harder. anyways, when i was talking to the store - they mentioned that if i tipped the delivery guys well enough, they may take my over-used-manufactured-in-1908 mattress off my hands.

tip the delivery guys?

i never realized that mattress delivery guys get tipped. i didn't realize that they were in the same category as pizza delivery boys. am i missing out on some customary cultural thing? don't they get paid to deliver my mattress? i don't get tipped for belaying people out here and i've got their lives in my hands.

and yes, i do tip the servers at a restaurants...for goodness sake, i'm not cheap. but they get paid minimum wage because they get tipped. i barely think the dudes driving all over central alberta delivering thousand (+) dollar items of furniture get paid minimum wage.

so i guess i'm asking whether or not i should tip them. even if it's about taking the mattress. i'd rather tip them because they were exceptionally nice or better yet, hot. i don't want to spend ridiculous amounts of money on a mattress and then PAY for them to deliver it and then TIP them. if they want a coffee for the road, timmy hos is only 30 minutes away and their coffee is dirt cheap (and tastes like dirt).

but i'd really like to not have to deal with the disposal of my mattress...i mean, especially if i'm going to have to pay the dump to take it...then i should have just tipped the delivery dudes. but on principle...should i?

dilemmas, dilemmas.

.:bear:.