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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Believe it or not, we were never in a situation where double dipping ever came up. He usually avoids dips due to multiple food allergies and you just never know what people will put in dips. So I was in the dark until after the vows - needless to say, I blame his mother (not a hippie). But a lot of my friends who went to prep school had parents who were of the hippie culture - they wanted "better things" for their kids. I'm pretty sure that table manners were not taught in prep school as these people are some of the worst offenders. I wouldn't know - I went to public school. But they did teach us weird "etiquette" in the sorority. Some of the "old school" stuff was hysterical. There were manuals from the 50's where you couldn't leave the sorority without a girdle - and the actually had girdle checks at the door.
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I think table manners are pretty uniformly bad these days. I think my manners are abominable - too many years eating lunch at my desk and I'm a barbarian. Though I was taught to set a table (incorrectly, I should note) in home ec in my public school, only observation & extracurricular reading taught me how to execute the necessary maneouvers.
Double dipping is pretty gross - you get two dips max, the first one and then maybe a second if you flip the chip around and hold it by the chewed end while dipping the clean one. And that only among consenting adults who can trust that you washed your hands.
Please, please, please tell us some more of the weird sorority etiquette! My mother's had a "3rd floor" rule, which was that, if a man attempted to force his attentions on you, if you were on the 3rd floor or below you were supposed to jump out the window, because, on some warped calculus, the risk of death at that height was considered better than the risk of dishonor, but at a higher floor the death rate cancelled out the virginity benefits.
Poll: what is the weirdest supposed "etiquette" rule you've ever heard pronounced? Aside from the above, it would be an edict from some chick who came to do some lecture on "business manners," who proclaimed a bunch of odd stuff, but one was that at a restaurant no one was allowed to nibble bread or drink anything until the full meal order had been taken. ?WTF? That stuff is only on the table to enable people to survive the slow service. Then again, this chick also said it was "rude" to have a regional accent (she said in her nasal Yankee honk), so no one paid any attention anyway.
