Dining Rules
Why can't people follow the rules? Granted, it's an unspoken rule, but still a rule nonetheless.Many restaurants -- particularly fast food places -- have booths or tables lined up along the wall. If someone is sitting at a table alone, and you're also alone, you don't sit at the next table so that you're facing the other person. You sit on the other side of this next table so that your back is to him/her. Otherwise, you're forced to stair at each other in an awkward silent dual while eating your meal.
Observing this rule is (of course) the responsibility of the person who arrives last. If the other guy sits down facing you, it's not like you can just switch seats. That's an even worse faux pas!
Then again, to be fair, there is another approach to this dilemma. You could actually start up a conversation with the other person. What a novel idea! You might become friends, pals, buddies! Then he might start wanting to borrow money from you. He might ask you to take a big relationship step and help him move. You'll ask if there's a sofa, and he'll say yes and that it's a 3-piece sectional. You'll ask if there are stairs to go up and down, and he'll say yes that he lives on the fourth floor of a building with no elevator. Then you'll ask his name, and he'll say, "I'm Keith Hernandez."
Posted by Jason Duncan at April 27, 2010 10:16 PM 
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Tags: rules booths eating
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: rules booths eating
I am not sure if people are aware of social norms of the prior generation(s) because the interpersonal interaction is more limited due to technological advances. In other words, they do not have enough experience in these situations.
Maybe this another good reason not to eat fast food.
I think people who feel uncomfortable about facing another person do not want to offend the other person by moving. The irony is that the other person probably feels the same way and both involved would prefer not to face one another.
Keith is just too much commitment just for talking to a guy once. He is too cocky...and he smokes.
They actually made a sociological documentary using "I'm Keith Hernandez"...I need to watch more Seinfeld.
Thanks for the comment! I'm curious, how did you find this page? Did you just stumble across it during a google search?
I am a distant cousin (Ritch Pruitt). I talked with you a few years back about the family tree. I started a more expansive tree (and DNA inquiries) this time around, so I checked out your site to see if you had found anything more in the past few years.
At the moment there is discussion on who are the actual descendants of Thomas Prewitt, every Pruitt/Pruett makes a claim. DNA results are wide and varied, so it is obvious that everyone cannot be from the same line. Infidelity might explain some of it. A recent sociological study said that 11% of fathers were not the biological father of supposed offspring. (I realize I am rambling). There are at 4 differing Pruett/Pruitt lines trying to figure it all out.
Best Regards,
Ritch
Ritch, what's your email address? Or, you can send me an email at jason@webjmd.com.
In some hotels there are strict dining rules. You must follow the dining rules. But most of the hotels are not obeying the dining rules. Today these dining rules are going to be disappearing from the world. Our young generation does not want to obey the dining rules. They are not conscious about these rules. The only thing they knew is taking food properly at proper time. This encourages the hotel masters. They place lots of chairs and tables without obeying the dining rules.
I should memorize some phrases from this work, they sounds good.