what do you do when you make a mistake on a restaurant tip?

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I just started a conversation about deja vu, or feeling like you have gone through or seen a situation before though in reality you really haven't. Well this one is deja vu with a twist, it happened before but didn't turn out the same way. I was 16 and my first love was 24. He had just gotten a credit card and he took me out for dinner. To show off he wanted to pay the dinner with a credit card. Now the credit card bill for the restaurant had a place where you add the tip of your choice to the bill, you just indicate the amount you want to put in. He didn't quite understand how to do it, and he left it blank. When he got his receipt back, he noticed he hadn't filled in the tip and he was so sorry, the waitress gave us great service and now she was not getting her tip. He went back to the manager and handed him the tip he intended on giving her, explaining he didn't realize he had to mark the tip on the bill and that she should get what was coming to her. The manager smiled and agreed he would give the tip to the waitress, the reason he didn't give it to the waitress directly was that he didn't want the manager to think that he was not giving her a tip at all. Now years later a simply situation occurred when I was out with a group of friends. One lady put what she thought was 5.00 as a tip on her credit card bill for the meal, but what she had actually done was put .50. The waiter took the bill and didn't say anything, but someone else in the group noticed her error, and mentioned you only gave .50 not 5.00, call the waiter over again before we go and give him the different you intended. Well the lady to all our surprise she said, oh well I made a mistake he got .50 not 5.00, anyhow he could quite a large tip from this table alone so he won't die and I saved some money which I really couldn't afford to spend anyhow. She did not seem to bothered by the situation. The rest of us did not say a word. what would you do if you made a mistake on the tip, would you do like my boyfriend and rectify the situation giving the money you intended to the waitress or manager, or would you say like the lady in my group, oh well I made a mistake so what.