Things/Behaviour NOT to Do In Public- Two

Napkins and Serviettes

• What is the use of a napkin or serviette?
• Surprisingly, many of you do not know that this small table linen (or paper made) should always be placed to the right of the place setting. When food has been placed at the table and before starting to eat, males and females are to place the serviette on their lap
• Always use a napkin or serviette, not your arm or clothing sleeve! As you use your napkin, do not keep replacing it to the top of your dining table. Do you realize how unsanitary and terribly unaesthetic said napkin looks after several food/mouth swipes? Place the napkin on your lap and return it after each wipe. Do not use the napkin to wipe or swipe as if you are drying with a bath towel or washing a baby's bottom, rather use discrete dabs to both corners of your mouth.
• A napkin is also meant to protect your clothing from those embarrassing drips and stains that map your trips and contents at the trough
  
• Napkins are definitely NOT used for blowing your nose or cleaning ears at the table or wiping perspiration from your forehead or neck! Do these in the washroom.
• After everyone in your company has finished dining, then you may gently place the napkin on top of your plate.
• If you accidentally drop your napkin, have the server replace it with a clean one.
• If you are walking by a table and you want to catch the attention of someone, purposely yet discretely drop your napkin beside their table and have them pick it up for you while maintaining eye contact and thanking them.
  

Things/Behaviour NOT to Do In Public- One

Applying Make-up In Public

• Do not apply mascara/make up/lipstick or brush your hair in public, especially while seated at a restaurant table or seated at the theatre or on public transportation. This behaviour is improper and rude and unsanitary.
  
• Excuse yourself from the dining table and apply lipstick or mascara or brush hair in a washroom or powder room.
• I once had a municipal government level manager invite me to lunch on the last day of my work contract. I had not quite finished eating the unflavorable food, when she whips out her compact and twists her lipstick out until a brightly coloured phallic rod is exposed and pressed to her eager lips. It is while she is looking in her mirror and fellatio impaling her coloured stick (and without even looking at me) that she mumbles an insincere 'thank you for your work'.
  

I Cringe When The Following Are Observed:

I Cringe When The Following Are Observed:

• Sun visor styled hats.
• Leather patchwork purses or jackets.
• Fanny packs.
• Slacks fitting too snuggly and/or pulled up too high on the waste.
• Manual or digital emptying of the contents of one's nostrils. Cyclists do this.
• The smell of cigerettes and smoke, especially when a portion is saved (behind the ear) and brought in doors or on a bus.
• Body odour; scratching or loosening or pickings of the skin/scalp/nails or other body debris while in public places to land on seats or areas where others have to sit or stand.
• Mirco-managers; bullying in the workplace.
• Spitting in public; on the sidewalks.
• Incessant, over-use of the word, LIKE...like...like...it's like...like...it's like.....
• Drivers who make turns on a pedestrian's walk light while there are pedestrians waiting or in the process of walking on the cross walk and drivers who fail to yield to pedestrians on a cross walk.
• Walkers, bikers, rollerbladers and skateboarders who do not keep to their right on a sidewalk, especially when there are two or more abreast and they fail to merge into a single line when there is an approaching walker.
  
• Application of make up, hair brushing or blowing one's nose in public and especially while dining. That is what the washrooms are for.
• More to come.