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QST, QST, QST, good morning and welcome to the Worldwide Friendship Net. My name is Dave, call sign is Alpha Bravo 7 Delta Whiskey and I'll be your Net Host this morning. This Net starts at 7am Pacific Time, 10am Eastern Time and 1400 UTC which it is right now for everybody else in the world. Before we begin I'd like to thank the following people for the use of their repeaters and reflectors. That would be Michael Wolfus, W8MW for the use of the 9617 Michigan Reflector and the 96170 Michigan Conference Server. I'd like to thank Darryl Ward, V01UKZ for the linking in of the DoDropIn and the DoDropIn2. I'd like to thank all the node owners and all of you for being here because without you there is no Net. Emergencies take priority on this Net and every other Net on Ham Radio. If you have an emergency that we can help with at any time during the Net, break the Net with a double break and we'll stop the Net and help you out any way we can and then resume the Net. If you're mobile or short time and you check in please let me know this and I'll put you at the top of the list. This is a popular Net and to make it fair for everybody that wants to check in. Check ins lasting more than 4 minutes including mic drops may be muted by the Net controller. Let's see I got two questions of the day for you today and you can select either one or none of them for discussion and let's see let you know what they are. First question, what is the silliest example of tipping and this is primarily in the United States because most other countries don't do this. What is the silliest example of tipping gone mad in the United States or other places. Second one is what grocery items when you go shopping have you stopped buying due to the inflation in whatever country you're in. So if you'd like to answer one of those or select one of your own you're more than welcome to do that. Let's take some short times in mobile round first and then we'll go on to the general check ins. If you're short time or mobile please come now with your call sign slowly in phonetics and twice. Victor Oscar one uniform kilos will lose short time. The old one UKG short time.