Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-07-27 3:55 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Just thinking about a family sitting in a nearby booth at a restaurant
>>> we ate in about a year ago. The teenage kids weren't loud or
>>> disruptive, but they were a study in bad manners. The mother looked like
>>> she had just come from work that likely involved a brass pole. The
>>> teenage daughter was texting or talking on her cell phone all through
>>> dinner. Father and son both had ball caps on... backwards. Gym rat
>>> father was always posed in some position to flex and show off his
>>> muscles. None of them knew how to hold a knife and fork. At least they
>>> weren't rowdy and disruptive.
>>
>> this sounds like the observations of someone whose judgy pants are at
>> least two sizes too small
>
>
> Don't worry. I did not intervene. I did not say anything. I even saved
> them the scornful looks. The kids should have learned manners from the
> parents. Those parents were not up to the task.

oh, you don't have to say anything or even use body language in order to
be judgemental