Table manners

[mustang1]

Table manners.
Do they still exist? Important part of kids upbringing?
I mean, placing knife & fork together when you finish. Elbows off the table. Eat with your mouth closed (who wants to watch someone's mastication! !)
Sit at the table until everyone else has finished? Reaching across someone's food to get the condiments?

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I'm up for table manners except for the elbows thing.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Surely a waiter should wait until everyone has finished.

No, how can they tell? Some people leave food on their plates, yet they've had enough. Others, leave food on their plates and talk, only to return to the plate later.
Clear signals sorts out ambiguity.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm up for table manners except for the elbows thing.

I tend to agree.. 👍🏼

Edit: Though I wouldn't have got away with it when I were a young lad!

 

[Mr Celine]

God forbid one should pass the port the wrong way.

 

[12boy]

I am embarrassed to say we do wear baseball caps, stocking caps and even Stetsons in restaurants. I don't know how many times I've seen a young couple, perhaps on a date, texting other people while eating in a restaurant. These behaviors exist in fancy restaurants with real plates and metal silverware. In fast food places people are less genteel and are less concerned with their appearance or the behavior of their children. However, I prefer noisy, happy kids to watching someone screaming at their child let alone hitting them.

 

[Moon bunny]

You are so woke.

My faculty has a position for a Grievance Studies professor and down the corridor there's an opening for a Gender Studies associate. Mail your CV to Blackhole@wokeness.com.

Surely you could have used a gender-neutral phrase such as send or post?

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Surely you could have used a gender-neutral phrase such as send or post?

Oh dear, that was a full-on micro-aggressive move. I'll immediately enroll in a gender sensitizing session.

 

[MontyVeda]

No, how can they tell? ...

possibly by asking?