Good morning, ladies!
Congratulations to FReeper Shotokan, his wife, and their newborn son, Matthew Reagan!
Well, picking your nose and eating the results at the dinner table would probably qualify.
Eating oysters with the dinner fork. (Always in poor taste . . . plus you go to Episcopalian Hell.)
GOOD TOPIC Lady!
Here's my pet peeve: (Well, ok, I have about a thousand of them, so this is just one.)
When church lets out and the vestibule is crowded with lots of people, several of them older and dependant on canes and walker to get around, I can't STAND it when people let thier kids run pell mell thru the crowd. Grrrrr! Ok - putting my horns away! LOL!
I have one thing that I think gets over-looked.
I taught my children to call adults Mr. or Mrs. (last name).
I found that children who used Mr. or Mrs. were better behaved than the children who called all adults by their first names.
I have made exceptions with my daughter who has speech problems, and I would let her call some people by their first names if it was easier.
My son, however, is required to call most people Mr. or Mrs.
We do have some exceptions. We have a single friend of my husbands that my kids adore, and they call him Uncle Bill because he is like an uncle to them. They also call their real aunts/uncles by their first names.
I am in college currently, and when I was younger, our family actually ate together, which is rare for today.
However, when it came to table manners, we did not really have any. We just grabbed the bowl of food and brought it to us instead of asking others to pass it. I guess our attitude was why should you have to work when I want something? So, I would get up, go to the other end of the table, and get the food. My mom shouldn't have to pass it to me when it is something I want.
Anyway, we also were not sticklers about the elbows on the table or placement of forks and knives etc. You just grabbed the needed utensils. Why be anal about how they are organized on the table?
One habit I don't like though is my bad habit of having elbows on the table all the time. It is awful. I just eat and stick my elbows on the table. This is about the only piece of good table manners I actually feel I should adhere to....pulling your head down to your spoon is just lazy.