Etiquette Quirk (to buy, military, how to, high school)

[mrstewart]

I love a well mannered man! My husband and I have been married for 16 years and I don't remember having to open a door or pulling my own chair when he was around. I never considered any of these things chauvenistic.
We have a weekend/summer home on the Chesapeake Bay and it can get a musty smell when it is locked up for more than a week or so. It is not uncommon for him to leave a day early and air the house out, mow the grass, rake the leaves and stock the fridge with the basics before the children and I get there! He even takes the dogs with him!
He is very well mannered...in other words, conscientious. I need to call him and tell him I just realized he is awesome! Haha! I tell him all the time.

[ptsum]

Originally Posted by mrstewart

I love a well mannered man! My husband and I have been married for 16 years and I don't remember having to open a door or pulling my own chair when he was around. I never considered any of these things chauvenistic.
We have a weekend/summer home on the Chesapeake Bay and it can get a musty smell when it is locked up for more than a week or so. It is not uncommon for him to leave a day early and air the house out, mow the grass, rake the leaves and stock the fridge with the basics before the children and I get there! He even takes the dogs with him!
He is very well mannered...in other words, conscientious. I need to call him and tell him I just realized he is awesome! Haha! I tell him all the time.

what a coincidence, I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay...

[Rance]

Sometimes I wish we still ate off birch bark plates and bowls with a forked stick. It's just food. I can't see gettting all upity for food. I have yet to eat in a place that requires a tie. It's just food! If I fell in to that predicament I would more than likely go find a pizza place and eat with my hands!
And even at a pizza place I would say thank you's and yes'm.

[mrstewart]

ptsum- where did you grow up? We are where the Rappahannock meets the bay and can't get enough of it. The slower pace is such a treat!

[mrstewart]

Don't get me wrong, Rance! I love good food that can be picked up with the fingers. What would we do without spareribs?? But there is something about the fork dragging on the teeth and the shovel thing. Sorry. They're just some of my pet peeves!

[Rance]

What grosses me out the worst...people that blow their noses in a restraunt...right at the table! I just want to throw my fork and stick it in their forehead!

[ptsum]

Originally Posted by mrstewart

ptsum- where did you grow up? We are where the Rappahannock meets the bay and can't get enough of it. The slower pace is such a treat!

I see you have a place on the Virginia side, I grew up near the Annapolis area, my grandparents had a farm on the South River just above Riva, I spent all my summers on his farm and in the South River or the Chesapeake Bay, I have cousins that lived in Edgewater, and we used to travel back and forth between the South River and the West River and would go all the way down the Chesapeake Beach which was below the North Beach, a good friend of mine as property on the lower Potomac River, in the Port Tobacco area, I also have some good friends and relatives that live over on Kent Island. I have a lot of family in that area, my wife says that I have South River and Chesapeake Bay water in my blood.

[mrstewart]

I love it in Annapolis! I always tease my boys (5 of them) that at least one of them have to go to The Naval Academy or St. John's so I can come visit!

[mrstewart]

Rance- Ear picking in traffic. I often wonder if people don't realize others can see through the windows!!!
And for some reason I am always behind the person who feels the need to scratch their behind.
I am a bigger stickler than I thought I was!!

[ptsum]

Originally Posted by mrstewart

I love it in Annapolis! I always tease my boys (5 of them) that at least one of them have to go to The Naval Academy or St. John's so I can come visit!

Before my wife and I bought this place up here in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains about three years ago, we would go down to the docks in Annapolis and there is a little place behind the fish market, a little breakfast shop that would sell croissants, we would get a couple croissants and a cup of coffee and sit out on the docks and watch the boats come in and out on Sunday mornings, it was real nice and peaceful.