Actually, New York Post, the biggest rip-off in Mykonos starts in the United States
The Real Karens of TikTok need to take several seats and get real about some travel truths
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SIGH...another day, another stupid person decides to take a petty traveler’s gripe and do a little TikTok song and dance about it, and another ersatz reporter who should go back to journalism school thinks it’s an actual story, but then again we are talking about Rupert Murdoch here so what do you want.
But we also be talkin’ about the one and only Mykonos and unlike in the pages of The New York Post, here truth prevails.
So a childless cat lady, er, some solo female traveler had an issue with the “tipping culture” on Mykonos and decided to grouse about it on TikTok. Maybe she was fleeced, I don’t know and I don’t care. But if you are a 63-year-old woman and your first instinct when something doesn’t go your way is to make a little content fart on social media and slander an entire Greek island, you actually have a bigger problem.
That problem is you.
I am offended by the direction of “tipping culture” in the United States of America, but no one’s forcing me to eat at a given restaurant. Similarly, nobody forced that woman to go to a particular restaurant. Or to go to Mykonos at all. In fact, people like that — those who at the slightest trace of something that doesn’t meet with their complete approval, whether it be on an airplane or in a restaurant or wherever whip out their phones as if anybody else cares — ought to stay the F home.
Because guess what? There are ZILLIONS of restaurants in Mykonos, including some of the best in Greece, and usually as elsewhere in Europe the gratuity is already included in the bill. If it’s not, and you have a problem with the “tipping culture” at a high-end restaurant then probably you can’t afford Mykonos, dear. And maybe you could if you had done the proper thing like found a rich husband or actually worked a little instead of sharpening your little axes to grind on TikTok. Give us a freakin’ break.
The real culprit here, of course, is The New York Post and its please-go-back-to-Australia-and-stay-there 937-old (an exaggeration — see, isn’t media distortion fun?) owner, Mr. Murdoch. I once worked for that odd man, and all I want to say is that people of his ilk don’t really care about you or me or the truth about much of anything.
What about, for example, the “tipping culture” of the United States of America? The one that comes in the form of the huge chunk of taxes most of us have to pay to fund the various foreign misadventures, as in Ukraine, that are perpetuated in no small degree by the reckless and craven “journalism” of News Corp.? How about those billions and billions of dollars that are being taken out of your wallets and finding their way into mysterious bank accounts in Zurich, in Kiev, in — eek! — Washington, D.C.?
There’s the real scandal, folks. And rest assured you won’t read about it in The New York Post.
GOOD riddance to that childless cat lady er, “solo female traveler” — one less cheapskate Canadian in Mykonos means one more spot at the sea-view table for a more seasoned traveler like yourself.
