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automaton personnel crew is ever
tipped. The mechanical attendants have no
use for pocket change. There is a famous story
of an airship named The Grayling Aardvaark whose
attendants were tipped most liberally by their American
travelers. The automatons would accept the coins and store
them, but the passengers came and went so frequently that no
one noticed the sheer amount of pence and schillings collecting
in the luggage compartment. Storage space is limited on an
airship and it is vital to determine the amount of weight an airship
carries before it takes off. The coins had altered the weight of the
ship! The passengers were in for a terrible surprise when they
discovered their ship was overladen and was plunging into the
sea. The quick thinking automatons cut a hole in the floor to
compensate for the buoyancy, causing over 90k pounds in
spare change to rain over Perth. But the sudden loss
of weight launched the airship so high into the
sky that, so far, the passengers have not
been seen to return to earth to
this day!
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While one will want to avoid mechanical gratuity, one may, however, say goodbye to the automaton steward or stewardess in attendance at the gangplank
when debarking. She will not care, but one may say it all the same.