Etiquette - October 2007

I am going to Croatia Spring 2008 to visit with distant cousins that my grandfather found back in the early 70s. The family is from Dalmactia, which is the beautiful coast of the country. thing is, I hate seafood, and I am sure they may offer fish, is there a way to say what foods I like? and them blame my aversions on some religious code, make up a food allergy, or just shut up and eat what they throw at you, if it aint moving, it eats. What's proper?

2007-10-31 09:20:57 · 8 answers · asked by pazuzusjc 2

I have known businessmen who make good money, but did not pass the 5th grade, can't read, write or spell. Their wife, or lawyer does it all for them. So people don't be mislead when it says you have to have a master's degree. Even these people don't know how to spell and speak as well. Your thoughts.

2007-10-31 09:11:48 · 10 answers · asked by Born Valentine's Day 5

2007-10-31 09:08:20 · 3 answers · asked by Mrs. O' 2

My boss never lets me take breaks.

2007-10-31 09:03:21 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Okay -- here at the job we had a chili cook off. Out of the 4 chili's, all received votes except one.
The person that didn't get any votes saw the paper that the votes were written on.

This person hasn't said they feel any ways about it. But I know how I'd feel. What do we say to her?? Alot of us feel bad that she didn't get votes. :-(

(Note: Her chili WASNT bad. It had a good mixture of meat, beans and rice. It tasted just like everyone else's. It's just that many people had different reasons why they chose what they chose -- for example, I HATE beans in my chili so the ones with beans did not get my vote.)

2007-10-31 08:56:21 · 8 answers · asked by dreamgyrl360 4

and are always willing to pick on white-collar people

2007-10-31 08:56:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-31 08:38:27 · 12 answers · asked by megansmom112902 2

Last night I was at McDonalds with my son. When the guy hands me our cups, he grabs them from the top by pinching the cup between his thumb and pointer finger. His pointer finger was inside the cup and he just casually hands it to me.

So I say "Can I have a cup that you didn't stick your finger in" and he gives me a shocked/dirty look. Then he carfefully hands me another cup by handling it only from the outside.

Could I have handled the situation better?

2007-10-31 08:36:47 · 23 answers · asked by questioning 3

Its not that the dish wasnt prepared properly, it was made beautifully, its just that you dont like the dish itself. You hate it so much, you cant eat it.

You have never eaten this particular dish before , so you didnt know you wouldnt like it before ordering. Its not easily available elsewhere.

SHould you return it?

Just interested to know what people would do.

2007-10-31 07:35:38 · 30 answers · asked by Chimera's Song 6

Granted if you are paying you are entitled to it but why do some people have to be rude before they even give someone a chance to correct the situation. I was at rite aid picking up a prescription. The lady in front of me had done some shopping in the store and she bought all her stuff back to the pharamacy to pay for everything in one order. The pharmacy tech scanned one of the items and when she sat it down it scanned a second time. This customer started screaming at this poor girl about her trying to cheat her out of her money, when the tech almost immediatly called for a void. Then the manager came to do the void and the lady starts demanding compensation for almost being cheated out of her money. She was being really nasty and the manager told her that she wasnt even supposed to be checked out at the pharamacy with so much stuff. So she called the manager a few names and the manager asked her to leave the store. Couldnt all of this had been avoided had she kept her cool?

2007-10-31 07:22:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

What annoys you the most about the holidays?

Mine....is my girlfriend's family's inablility to be in the same room with each other for longer than 10 minutes without a screaming match breaking out.....

They put the FUN in Dysfunctional!

Thank GOD for heavy drinking!!!

2007-10-31 06:50:46 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Have you ever experienced or seen this? What did you do or think?

2007-10-31 06:49:39 · 3 answers · asked by Cas 4

Being asian american and a bartender I've dealt with many indifferences from all backgrounds and I don't hold any grudges against any race, creed, or religion. I want to know if you have encountered any in your experiences and how you've dealt with it.

2007-10-31 06:32:43 · 29 answers · asked by Phonger 2

everyone seems to take what I say way too literly, instead of looking through what I am saying to see what I am talking about.

ex:
me: Do you have an old pair of really tight pants I can have for my halloween costume?
sister: Thanks for calling me fat.

Obviously I didn't mean to call her fat, but she pulled it out of my words. I'm not the best at watchin my words so closly that people can't pick them apart to find something harmful. Y do people do this? All my friends and espically my sister do it, how do I get them to understand that I'm not trying to harm them?

this happens a lot to me if you can't tell.

2007-10-31 06:21:46 · 18 answers · asked by Nate 6

2007-10-31 06:10:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

The invite was sent out to his group, and he simply replied, "You could not pay me double the admission cost to attend."


The boss did not respond because it was so rude.

What do you think?

2007-10-31 04:28:42 · 11 answers · asked by Reserved 6

Should the card opening be placed up or down in the envelope and should the front of the card face the opening or the back of the envelope? Does this rule apply for all cards, invitations, birthdays etc... or does it matter how the card goes in the envelope at all.

2007-10-31 04:01:15 · 20 answers · asked by caliwyo 3

We recently moved into a new community and both our neighbors on either sides have dogs and young children, so had their fences up months before we moved in. We've been living here two months now, and our neighbor to the right gives us a bill for $600! Firstly, we don't even know if fences are mandatory, and since we don't have kids or dogs, we don't care about having a fence! Secondly, if they are mandatory, we were not given any say on how the fence was built or how much was paid. My husband's brother is a General Contractor, and can get materials for almost nothing and would've been happy to put up the fence for free, so we don't see why we should pay for what we could've gotten for way less. I understand that we should be neighborly, but I think it was rude to bang on our door after two months and demand a certain payment with no room for "talking about it." Don't neighbors waive their right to split a cost when they build a fence without us even allowed to consult?

2007-10-31 03:50:07 · 22 answers · asked by shullqst 1

We should never have to fill out deposit/withdraw slips, etc. Those aren't for us it's their paperwork. If they really need a hard copy, they should be able to print something out with that info already filled in. The most they should ever need from us is a signature and some ID.

I've noticed that they'll reluctantly fill these out for you. I usually claim to have carpal tunnel, or I’m “uncomfortable filling this out”. Seems like they're just wasting everyone’s time.

2007-10-31 03:48:47 · 10 answers · asked by scooterbaga 1

This one friend borrowed money from me and spent it on a bunch of junk right in front of me, after saying it was for food coz they were running out. Then the next week she's like, I need to get some more food. I didn't loan her again, but I feel bad for her. Why is she doing that?

2007-10-31 03:25:51 · 4 answers · asked by dumbuglyweirdo 5

Like if they just want to borrow lots of money, they don't have to come up with lies, they just need to pay it back.

2007-10-31 02:59:40 · 4 answers · asked by dumbuglyweirdo 5

If you haven't heard from a friend for quite a while, do you write or ring them... to see if they are ok or do you just suppose they haven't been in touch because they have nothing of interest to say?

2007-10-31 01:27:38 · 10 answers · asked by ~☆ Petit ♥ Chou ☆~ 7

2007-10-31 01:08:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I forgot the word

2007-10-31 00:51:14 · 11 answers · asked by joncenaxxx 1

2007-10-31 00:11:45 · 12 answers · asked by cheese 1

where the woman is too loud during sex?

I have written notes, complained to the landlord and nothing!

I am losing sleep and I am a carer.

What can I do?

2007-10-30 23:17:16 · 29 answers · asked by Rebz 5

IT IS NOT YOU PERSONALLY BUT IT IS YOUR GUEST/WOMAN/LITTLE GIRL/BOOTY CALL WHATEVER ARRANGEMENT YOU HAVE WITH ONE ANOTHER.......

SEX IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN INTIMATE ACT, HOWEVER IT SEEMS NOT TO BE THE CASE WHEN I AM AWOKEN TO THIS GIRL MOANING LIKE AN ACTRESS WHO IS OWED AN OSCAR.

SHE DOES NOT SOUND GOOD. SHE SOUNDS LIKE A MAN.

I AM NOT SURE IF SHE IS PUTTING IT ON, YOU KNOW, LIKE BEING LOUD TO CATER TO YOUR EGO, MAKING YOU FEEL LIKE SOME SORT OF STUD?

IT IS THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK- SORRY TO BREAK IT TO YOU LIKE THIS BUT I THOUGHT A MAN AS OLD AS YOU ARE WOULD KNOW THIS!

YOU NEED TO TELL HER TO KEEP THE GOD DAMN NOISE DOWN, I HAVE HEARD GORILLAS COPULATING SOUND BETTER THAN HER. SURELY THIS MUST DO YOUR HEAD IN, PUT A PILLOW OVER HER HEAD OR SOMETHING!!! ACTUALLY, TONIGHT, SHE SOUNDED LIKE REGAN (THE GIRL POSSESSED) IN THE FILM THE EXORCIST, VERY APPROPRIATE WITH IT BEING HALLOWEEN I MUST ADD!

tell her to shut it, or she willnot like the way i will tell her

2007-10-30 22:22:47 · 14 answers · asked by Rebz 5

Or should you only have a baby shower for your first baby?

2007-10-30 20:27:52 · 10 answers · asked by sunflowers 4

I would think that they have a right to kick people off the bus, yes, but is there a limit to that?

Can they kick people off just because of their age or that they were in the wrong spot at the wrong time?

There was a situation back in high school where a group of us high school kids would catch a public bus and all sit at the back.
One kid tyed one of the handles to the rope thing so that it wouldn't stop buzzing.
The furious bus driver demanded to know who did it. I had no idea, I had been busy talking to my friend and some of the others hadn't seen it. The ones who did weren't going to say who.
So the bus driver said that everyone of the school kids had to get off the bus, even if they said they didnt see what happened.

We were going to be kicked off just because we were sitting nearby and wore a school uniform... I know it's difficult to the bus driver, but is it really fair to kick them off with no way of getting home and possibly no way of contacting anyone?

2007-10-30 20:18:09 · 13 answers · asked by chocoboryo 6

A good friend of mine asked me to be god mother to her baby recently, I was so honored and I want to be involved in everything with the baby shower, and the birth. Her shower is saturday and I have made the baskets to give out as gifts, I am making 100 blue cupcakes, swedish meat balls and 200 pigs in a blanket and I am printing out 100 word searches for a party game. I am also going to set up, and I have taken her tons of gifts for the baby already. The thing is, I am pretty much broke ( someone stole a bunch of money from me recently) and I don't have much money to get her an actual shower gift. Is what I have done enough, or should I bring a gift also? I don't want to seem rude to her family or other friends. She wouldn't care, she is so thankful that I have done "so much already" as she puts it.

2007-10-30 19:54:12 · 6 answers · asked by Sammie Jo 3