#26) Do not wear a hat indoors, especially at the dinner table.
#27) Do not talk with food in your mouth, especially on a cell phone while you are wearing a hat.
Manner#28
Pull your pants up.
LOL! Literally, I laughed out loud. How about talking with your mouth full on a cell phone while you are wearing a hat indoors?
My dad was a marine during WW-II, then after graduation from MSU, was an officer in the Army. After leaving the army he became career Detroit police officer who respected his job as well the protocol.
I will never forget the first time my then teenage nephew walked into dad's house wearing a baseball cap without taking it off. Dad read the kid the riot act and it never happened again........at least at dad's house. LOL!
Hats indoors are a MAJOR peeve of mine, especially at dinner tables in restaurants........Face it Forgotten Man, the days of common courtesy and proper etiquette are over. It's not that our parents taught us wrong, it's just that once we grew up many said screw etiquette and forgot about it and have ultimately left out that crucial societal need while raising their own rude children.
As a side note, I am now dating a lady who has 4 kids, aged 25, 23, 18 and 13. The 25 and 23 year olds are boys who live outside her house and the the 18 and 13 year olds are girls who live at home.
I was invited to join her for dinner with her entire family at a restaurant this past Saturday night. Upon arrival, she introduced me to her brothers and sisters and that was the last interaction I had with them the entire night.
She and I were seated at the end of a long table and not one of her kids came up to me to say hi. When the eldest son came in, he sat next to me and had I not presented myself to him to say "Hi Ryan, how are you doing", he wouldn't have said a thing..........
After we left the restaurant, everyone went to her mother's house and that was an even more surreal experience for me. I felt like an invisibale ghost who dropped in at the house. Totally ignored by everyone. When the evening ended and everyone was leaving, the only person who acknowledged my presence by saying good by was my friend's daughter's boyfriend..............go figure.
Re: your #26. Who is it that decreed it’s ill-mannered to wear a hat indoors? I can understand being peeved by a man not removing his hat for the national anthem or in church, but I don’t get the outrage (not by you.....by my in-laws) upon seeing someone wearing a baseball cap in a casual restaurant or a visiting family member walking into my home with one on.