On Thu 19 Jan 2006 06:26:22a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Melba's
Jammin'?

> In article
> >,
> Elaine Parrish > wrote:
> (Daddy's Menu Ordering When Someone Else is Buying class snipped)
>>
>> It really does make for a pleasant evening. It's right up there with
>> slow dancing with a man that knows that the hand he has on your back is
>> there to give signals and guide and the arm that is holding your hand
>> is to be a solidly stable rudder so the woman doesn't have to guess
>> where his feet are going. sheesh.
>>
>> In hindsight, my dad wasn't nearly as stoopid as I thought when I was a
>> teenager. go figure! <VBG>
>>
>> Elaine, too
>
> Are you sure you and Miss Manners aren't half-sisters? Do you REALLY
> know where your dad was on some of those nights when he wasn't home?
> "-) Go, Dad!! Your father's grace and manner remind me of a woman with
> whom I once worked: When we went to lunch and someone else was picking
> up the check, she'd always order large (with enough to take home) with a
> laughing, "Well, since Tim is buying, I'll have _FITB_." Your story
> reminds me of hers because it was an opposite attitude and behavior.
> :-/
>
> I believe I'll pass this along to Beck for lessons with Sam. Thanks,
> Elaine.

Barb, many Southerns were and still are raised this way. I was, too, as
were all of my cousins, and it's the way they have raised/taught their
children. There's a sensibility in the South that isn't quite like
anywhere else. A place where you still hear "yes, m'am? and "no, m'am"
*always* with your elders, regardless your own age.

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Wayne Boatwright տլ
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Okay, okay, I take it back! UnScrew you!