OT: Etiquette question

On 4/13/2011 10:18 AM, sf wrote:

Speaking of appallingly rude teenagers, here's an etiquette question
about one from a Miss Manners column:

Dear Miss Manners,
My husband says it's fine to ask a host or hostess for items "off the
menu." My stepson, who is 14, regularly asks for items that are not
part of what was given to him when we're at other people's homes. This
might include "Do you have a larger cut of filet - I'm starving" or
"Can I have more shrimp?" or "What's for dessert? Do you have any ice
cream or cookies?" or "Wow - I don't know if I like this, do you have
anything else?"

Each time this happens, I am embarrassed. I feel the host decides what
to serve her guests, and unless you have a food allergy or an aversion
to a specific meal (if you're a vegetarian), you should expect to eat
only what is presented, bring your own, or eat when you get home. What
do you think?
 
In article ,
virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz says...

I'm with you. I'm amazed to see couples in restaurants both doing it.

We used to have a friend who started bringing her mobile phone and
placing it on the table beside her as we sat down to eat. After she had
interrupted several meals with us to take incoming social calls, her
husband lost his temper (at our table in our house). Afterwards she
apologised to me for his rudeness and when I replied that it was entirely
understandable she didn't take it well.

Janet.
 
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:07:45 -0400, George
wrote:


When I have guests I turn off the ringers on the two phones I ever let
ring and let incomings go into my answering machine. I have seven
phones in my house but only two need to ring for me to know someone is
calling, my cordless with its base station at one end and the fax
combo at the other end of the house. Often when I'm expecting a call
but need to do yard work I take my cardless, it says it has a 300 ft
range but I know it's twice that... so I really don't have use for a
cell phone.
 
well, i guess two lines on welfare could be part of the disfunction... and
him being passive /agressive with her phone line, and using dave as the
patsy sorta makes sense... good thing he is finished with them. Lee
"sf" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
 
lol, the least i can get a local only landline for is almost fifty bucks a
month, we are in a rural area, they are exempt from competition, i would
have a land line if it were only five bucks a months, Lee
"J. Clarke" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
 
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:27:01 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:


I have that, plus a car charger for my camera batteries too.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:17:18 -0400, James Silverton
wrote:


There's no question in my mind about their sanity, or of anyone who
makes their phone conversations audible to anyone but themselves.
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:33:24 -0500, "Storrmmee"
wrote:


That made me think about a stronger word: cheat. If they can "afford"
two telephone lines and one or two computers on welfare, they were
welfare cheats.


Yeah. Dave does have a knack for finding odd friends and accumulating
even odder relatives... but he's a great story teller and I'm always
entertained by them. But that's as close as I'd ever want to get to
his world. LOL

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:52:22 -0500, Janet Wilder wrote:


What happens if he leaves the house?

Nowadays it would be much easier to build in a mini-cellular
transmitter into the pacemaker capable of transmitting just enough
info to do the same thing it does now.

-sw
 
In article ,
"Bob Terwilliger" wrote:


ROTFL!! C'mon, Bob, name names!!
--
Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
Holy Order of the Sacred Sisters of St. Pectina of Jella
"Always in a jam, never in a stew; sometimes in a pickle."
Pepparkakor particulars posted 11-29-2010;
http://web.me.com/barbschaller
 
On 14/04/2011 12:48 AM, sf wrote:


For emergencies, major and minor. It could be to call if the car breaks
down, if my bicycle breaks down in the middle of nowhere, I my body
gives out on me while I am out hiking. It could even be to call home
while at a grocery store to see if there is something my wife wants me
to pick up.


I was thinking more in terms of emergencies that happen when away from
the house. I have a land line. I don`t even use it much. I don`t like
talking on the phone much, which may make it even more difficult for me
to appreciate the need that some people have to have a phone stuck to
their ear.
 
On 13/04/2011 8:55 AM, Janet wrote:


One day last week I was over at the corner bakery for a coffee and the
owner's daughter and her friends were there. While the daughter was
doing something for her mother the friends sat there testing friends and
were reading their incoming text messages and their replies to each
other. Hell, I thought having to listen to one sided cell phone calls
was bad, but having both sides of two sets of teen drama beats that all
to hell.
 
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:19:35 -0400, "Nancy Young"
wrote:


It's always a relief to see an earpiece.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 14/04/2011 1:07 AM, graham wrote:


My wife used to leave empty purses in the car. She likes to be
coordinated, which involves having the appropriate purse. So she would
leave the other purse sitting in plain view. I objected, pointing out
that it would be a target for thieves.


Silly me.... thieves aren`t going to steal an empty purse.

Maybe no, but if she is going to leave the purse out to lure thieves,
the least she could do would be to leave the windows open so that the
low lifes don`t break the windows to get at the purse they aren`t going
to steal.
 
Re: [email protected]

sf wrote:


Yeah, they had big transcievers in the trunk and mounted the bracket on the
center console.

I worked for a Porsche dealer years back. We sold a lot of those phones to
new car buyers and sublet the work to an accessory shop. On 911 type
Porsches there is a center tunnel even though it's rear engine. It's for
chassis strength and they run the main wiring loom down the middle of it. An
installer drilled holes for the handset mount right into the wiring loom
which feeds virtually everything electronic. Naturally, it shorted
everything out and burnt up the loom. It had to be totally replaced. The
entire interior and dash had to come out, and all the engine bay
electronics, a mechanic's nightmare. You never saw so much spaghetti in your
life. The bill to the installer was kinda high...

MartyB
 
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