Nation IN BRIEF : OREGON : Big Tipper Wants $1,000 Gratuity Back

There’s one tip waitress Ruth Bullis will never forget: $1,000 on a $3.95 gin-and-tonic. Apparently the tipper can’t get it out of his mind either. He wants the money back. Bullis is not about to hand it over. In fact, she’s already spent it. She and her co-workers at Lake Oswego’s Stanford’s Restaurant and Bar say the tipper wasn’t tipsy or otherwise addled when he signed the credit card slip in November. Bullis said she saw the tipper three weeks later and he mentioned that he had thought of her as he paid his credit card bill. The money came in handy for some bills, a Christmas ski suit for Bullis’ husband and a rain jacket for herself.