Wherever I Go

I'm at the cigar shop I patronize when a customer nicknamed Doc asks me a question.

"Say I'm in a restaurant and the owner's serving me." Doc asks. "Do I tip him?'

"It depends," I say.

"On what?"

"If no waiters are working but there's busboys I'd still leave a tip."

"'Cause the busboys get some of it."

"Right."

"But if there's no busboys?"

"Then I'd say no."

"Well listen to this," Doc says. "I'm eating lunch in a place, no waiters, busboys, nothing. The owner served me. And after I paid up she had...