Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : This happened a couple weeks ago. I was at a nice and very busy burger joint waiting on my to-go order to be made, so I sat at the bar and ordered a beer, which cost ~$5.50. I paid $6 to the bartender who gave me my drink, I had my beer and watched some of the games on the TVs. When I finished my beer it occurred to me that I never received any of my change. I kind of figured the barkeep forgot it since, as I said before, they were very busy. Makes sense, right? At this point I still intended on tipping the guy ~$2 for my $5.50 beer.

Now its important for me stop here to note that I've held multiple restaurant jobs where I washed dishes and served tables. Because of this I am never stingy with my tips, and I would also never take a customers money unless they told me to keep it... although I wouldn't do that anyway even if I had never worked in a restaurant. 

So, when he walks back my way I stop him and ask for my change. He practically did a double take at me, and asked in a derisive tone, "Really? You really want your fifty cents back?" 

At this point I was peeved, and was assuming this is regular behavior on his part. I responded, "Yeah. Did you just keep my money without my say?" He didn't say a word and turns for the register. "Well you can keep it," I said. "I was going to tip you more until you made the executive decision to keep my money without my say." He completely blows me off, gets the change, places it on the bar while giving me a smile exuding passive irritation and says, in the same tone, "Heres your fifty cents back." 

I repeated what I told him a second before, then left the change on the bar and made my way over to the other end of the restaurant to pick up my order. As I turned around, a couple of patrons were commenting on the interaction. I didn't catch what they said in its entirety, but they seemed to disapprove of me calling the bartender out like that.

So AITA for asking for my change back? 