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I just thought that this would a great thing to talk about: What are your pet Peeves when it come to dining at home or out. Eating at home and dining out are great ways to develop relationships with family and friends. And it's also a good way to get an insight of what a person will be like before you marry them
These are just a few of mine:
1) Sitting at the table with your hat on, not good.
2) Eating with you mouth open, gross.
3) Talking on the cell phone, at home or dining out, uncouth & very rude.
4) Receiving calls at home while eating, that's family time.
5) Allowing the children to roam around at will when they should be sitting and eating.
Now these are just a few that I have and I feel the my mom and dad tried to do their best to raise 10 respectable children and not the heathen we see today.
I just thought that this would a great thing to talk about: What are your pet Peeves when it come to dining at home or out. Eating at home and dining out are great ways to develop relationships with family and friends. And it's also a good way to get an insight of what a person will be like before you marry them
These are just a few of mine:
1) Sitting at the table with your hat on, not good.
2) Eating with you mouth open, gross.
3) Talking on the cell phone, at home or dining out, uncouth & very rude.
4) Receiving calls at home while eating, that's family time.
5) Allowing the children to roam around at will when they should be sitting and eating.
Now these are just a few that I have and I feel the my mom and dad tried to do their best to raise 10 respectable children and not the heathen we see today.
So what are yours and why?
Well, I have to admit that I have pretty awful table manners. I really love to read my mail while I am eating dinner. Often if I don't have mail, I will pick up a magazine or newspaper and read while I eat. It is rude, I know. But there were many years in my life when I had to eat alone, and it made it much nicer, and I just developed the habit.
As far as pet peeves of mine? Well, it would have to be loud eating noises. Lord, when my dh eats, you would think he has not tasted a morsel of food for a week. The man is one noisy eater. Smack, slurp, chomp, chomp chomp. Sometimes it sounds like a heard of water buffalo. I suppose, I don't like it because it disturbs my reading LOL which is kind of ironic when you think about it.
I would think that maybe he was making all that noise on purpose to distract me, but I know for certain he eats that way ALL THE TIME regardless of whether I am reading or not (or if anyone else is in the room).
My mother also annoys me because she is "fidgety" at the table. She just can't sit down and eat. She has to hop up and get more napkins, or hop up and get more water, or check on this or look at that. I want to just yell.... "SIT DOWN AND EAT". But I don't, because that would not be very nice.
1) People who bite their forks.
2) Chewing with mouth open.
3) Loud noises when eating.
4) People who don't wait to start eating until everyone is seated.
5) Watching t.v. while at the dinner table.
6) Slurping drinks.
7) "Drinking" soup or cereal from the bowl...this is just nasty!
8) The use of toothpicks or fingers to dislodge food from teeth at the table.
I hate the sound of someone slurping their soup, or scraping their plate or bowl with their fork or spoon to get the last tidbit. Guess they want to make sure everyone around them knows theyre eating. Those are the type of people that wonder why I dont like doing lunch or dinner with them.
I hate the sound of someone slurping their soup, or scraping their plate or bowl with their fork or spoon to get the last tidbit. Guess they want to make sure everyone around them knows theyre eating. Those are the type of people that wonder why I dont like doing lunch or dinner with them.
Oh, I forgot the scraping of the last morsel in my list! Whenever I see someone like that, I feel like handing them a rubber spatula and taking their metal utensils so the rest of us are spared the atrocious noise.
I hate the sound of someone slurping their soup, or scraping their plate or bowl with their fork or spoon to get the last tidbit. Guess they want to make sure everyone around them knows theyre eating. Those are the type of people that wonder why I dont like doing lunch or dinner with them.
LOL - and here I thought I was alone in hating these behaviors! Pretty much everything on everyone's list is a turn-off to me, but since I'm a lone diner I don't have to put up with this anymore, except for the odd occasion of going to a diner at 4am after work with a bunch of strippers - and THAT'S always good for making people stop their bad eating habits immediately!
Oh, just remembered a gross one that I actually saw in a "better" restaurant once- guy digging in his nose then blithely continuing to eat.
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