Is Tiger Woods a celebrity cheapskate? Check bitterwaitress.com

While researching my Phil Mickelson, generous tipper blog yesterday, I came across a hiliarious Web site I’d like to share with you. It’s called www.bitterwaitress.com and it’s full of juicy anecdotes about the behavior and tipping practices of famous people.

Like most folks, I like to read about famous people in their unguarded moments. Some of the celebs come across on the website as genuinely nice people - like Teri Hatcher, Howard Stern, Katie Couric, Pedro Martinez, Joan Rivers, David Schwimmer, Drew Carey and, yes, Pete Rose and many more.

But then there are others – Dennis Miller, Bud Selig, Richard Simmons, and Jennifer Lopez, are you listening? - who come across as horrible jerks. And Russell Crowe …. well, that’s no surprise by now.

You might be surprised to learn that there isn’t much negative stuff on golfers, although one poster complains that Tiger Woods left him a $4 tip at Tony Roma’s in Orlando for a $125, two-and-a-half-hour meal. But that was a number of years ago.

The award for most generous tip goes to Bill Gates, who left $8,000 on the table at an Italian restaurant in Vancouver where he and his wife entertained 15 people and, including the wine and Champagne, the bill came to $12,000. That’s a 66 percent gratuity – not a bad night for the staff, each of whom took home nearly $900. Gates can afford it, obviously, but still ….