{"id":946130,"date":"2025-07-12T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946130"},"modified":"2025-07-12T09:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T04:18:47","slug":"bengaluru-rapido-customer-adds-a-tip-of-rs-500-for-a-rs-200-ride-reddit-post-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/12\/bengaluru-rapido-customer-adds-a-tip-of-rs-500-for-a-rs-200-ride-reddit-post-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengaluru Rapido customer adds a tip of Rs 500 for a Rs 200 ride; Reddit post goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tipping is not a common practice in India, with many either slipping a Rs 10 note to a waiter or sometimes walking out of a restaurant without leaving any at all. But one case from Bengaluru has caught the attention of thousands because of a commuter&#8217;s tipping behaviour while booking an auto ride. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the incident all about? A Reddit post from a Bengaluru-based Rapido customer is going viral, narrating what made them pay a huge tip to the driver amidst the frustration of booking an auto in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tipping is not a common practice in India, with many either slipping a Rs 10 note to a waiter or sometimes walking out of a restaurant without leaving any at all. But one case from Bengaluru has caught the attention of thousands because of a commuter&#8217;s tipping behaviour while booking an auto ride. What&#8217;s the incident all about? A Reddit post from a Bengaluru-based Rapido customer is going viral, narrating what made them pay a huge tip to the driver amidst the frustration of booking an auto in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}