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One response to “Thursday Question #18: Social Etiquette”

  1. Sarah

    I’m not quite “practically perfect in every way,” but my grandmother tried. Grandma is a walking talking cliche. She’s a typical Jewish granny, with the perfect house, formal multi-course meals, and rigorous behavioral expectations. Between her training (like a huge diamond ring in the spine if my posture was lacking) and an adolecence full of Victorian novels and fairy princesses, I have a hearty sence of etiquette and truly enjoy the trappings oif formal hospitality.

    Unfortunately, my husband had a very different upbringing. He wasn’t exactly raised in a barn, but he was raised way out in the country by a farmer, a high school dropout, and a roughneck. He finds etiquette to be an uncalled for extra effort and silly to boot. We get into it over him being impolite and inconsiderate and over my heightened expectations. It isn’t so formal as a rule, but the only way to avoid unresolvable conflict is for me to ignore it when he fails to comprehend “manners.”