How about this for a "tip"

(June 16) -- Taxi driver Don Pratt said he took it with "a pinch of salt" when a longtime customer said she would "look after" him in her will. But the salt took on a very sweet taste when he learned she meant exactly what she said -- to the tune of $370,000.

Pratt, 65, spent 20 years taking Mary Watson on countless shopping trips around her home in Cornwall, England, and she had always been a good tipper.

But he said he couldn't believe it when a call from Watson's lawyer confirmed she had left him the biggest tip possible: her entire estate, including her house and her savings.

"She was a very nice lady, always very generous. We would always have a good chat while I ferried her around," Pratt said, the British media reported today.

And although she had told him, "When I pass on I'll look after you," Pratt said he had "no idea she was going to leave me a fortune."

Watson, who died this year at age 86, moved into a home for the elderly a few years ago in Northampton, in the English Midlands.

The two "lost contact completely," Pratt was quoted as saying in London's Daily Mail, but Watson stayed true to her word.

Pratt, a cab driver for 30 years and a father of four, said the money will enable him to retire, but he won't stop driving.

"We want to go around England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland -- to start with, anyway."

Pratt said he was not sure how Watson's family felt about the will, but a spokeswoman for the care home in Northampton said, "She didn't have any close family to speak of," and that "there was a whole side to her life we didn't know about."

She added: "It's a very generous thing to do and he obviously had a great impact on her life. He must have been a very good driver."

Good, and now able to take as many cab rides as he might like.