Imagine you see a really cute girl in your class. So because you’re an absolute gangster you ask her on a date to your local mini-golf course to impress her with your skills. You pull up to the course with your baddie and you pay for the experience of a lifetime.

After you finishing paying, the prepubescent teenager working the course turns the iPad around and smugly tells you, “It’s going to ask to you a few questions…” while the screens shows an option for a large, unnecessary tip. In an effort to show your generosity and your copious amounts of money, you are guilt tripped into tipping 33% for absolutely nothing.

Your date doesn’t even notice and you’re thrown off your game. You shoot 25 over par and she ghosts you shortly after.

Now imagine that the prepubescent teenage is your landlord and guilt remains the same.

Ronald Weems, local landlord that owns one of the scary Monster Homes south of campus, has started asking for a tip during monthly rent payments. According to Weems, this new effort for passive income has been widely successful.

“Due to inflation, I’ve needed a new way to increase my income. Instead of getting a real job, I started guilt tripping college students into tipping me in their rent payments. It’s worked like a charm.”

To no one’s surprise, struggling college students have been furious over the news.

“Bro I can’t believe that my landlord doesn’t have my best interest in mind,” BYU student Gill McQuill told the Alternate Universe. “Before long, I won’t even be able to go to my classes without leaving a tip.”

“That’s not a bad idea…” Brad Wilcox said when he overheard this student lamenting.

We suspect it’s on a matter of time before ‘guilt tipping’ takes over BYU and the Utah Valley area.

Anyway, if you could Venmo @BobbyZimmeruski to show appreciation for his reporting efforts, that would be much appreciated.