"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>
> "Vox Humana" > wrote in message
> >> One thing I did with my boys as they went into middle school
age::::::::
> >> When they and I were at a restaurant (when their dad wasn't with us), I
> >> would slip them money under the table, and they would ask for the bill
> >> and
> >> see to paying the waiter and figuring the tip. I also had one of them
> > order
> >> for me, as my husband would have done had he been there. In this way
> >> they
> >> learned how a young man should behave on a date, etc., so as not to
feel
> >> awkward later.
> >
> > What!
>
> What what? That's the way it used to be. The man always did the ordering
> and paid the bill. The wait staff used to always come to the gentleman
for
> the order. That was considered good manners.
>
> It may be old fashioned but my wife still likes for me to order for her
also
> because it makes her feel special getting treated like a queen.
> Unfortunately, the staff will always ask her first. My wife has never
paid
> the bill or pumped gas in her car, or started a fire in the wood stove
> either.
> --
> Ed
> http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

That's fine for you, but I don't think people have generally done it that
way since about 1964. I would imagine that having your 12 year old son
order for you like he was your date would be about the most exquisitely
embarrassing situation one could engineer - sort of sending him to the
corner store to pick up a giant box or extra absorbent sanitary napkins.