"James Silverton" > wrote in message
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> On 4/16/2013 12:44 PM, Nancy2 wrote:
>> On Apr 16, 11:16 am, James Silverton >
>> wrote:
>>> On 4/16/2013 11:33 AM, Kalmia wrote:> On Tuesday, April 16, 2013
>>> 11:17:06 AM UTC-4, Metspitzer wrote:
>>>>> I was taught not too put my elbows on the table in a restaurant. Since
>>>
>>>>> it is a very comfortable position, I ignore my manners. When that
>>>
>>>>> happens, I always look around and find, at least, half of the room
>>>
>>>>> doing the same.
>>>
>>>> So, you share the room with other boors. Big deal.
>>>
>>> Just what is wrong with elbows on the table? It's a perfectly natural
>>> position especially for an after dinner discussion.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)
>>>
>>> Extraneous "not" in Reply To.
>>
>> We weren't allowed to put elbows on the table either at home or out in
>> a restaurant. I believe at the time, it was considered uncouth or
>> uneducated in the finer aspects of acceptable public manners, so to
>> speak. I'm talking 40s/early 50s. I still think it's rude. For one
>> thing, if the table is at all crowded, an elbow on the table tends to
>> get in the way of the tablemates to your right and left.
>
> It sounds like you are appealing to the ultimate authority on etiquette
> :-) As they say in Scotland, "Ma Mammy telt me".

lol quite right

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