How do you react while witnessing a person doing one or the other while dining out with family and or friends?
2006-07-18 03:08:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
In the U.S., yes, it is considered bad etiquette to do either, but a lot depends on who you're with. Some people don't care. Burping is pretty natural, so unless someone is doing it deliberately in an attempt to be obnoxious, no big deal. Someone who needs to blow their nose really should go to the bathroom to do that instead of doing it at the table in a restaurant, but it would be even more un-cool to bust someone's chops over it.
2006-07-18 03:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by sarge927 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
This is just advice....
Do not blow your nose at any table that has food on it. Respectfully excuse yourself from the table and go to the bathroom or another more private room where other people don't have to worry about your mucus in their food.
Burping is natural but no one wants to smell what you had for lunch. cover your mouth if you have to and for pete's sake say excuse me.
It is ok to politely ask some one to cover their mouths or if to suggest that there are tissuses in the bathroom but you do not have the right to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do. Personally if they didn't get the hint from the pure look of discust on my face than I'm just sasy enough to give them some good advice.
2006-07-18 06:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by shorty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes a burp just slips out no matter how hard the person tries to keep it in. As long as they excuse themselves and don't make a habit I'm fine with it. As for blowing your nose, please leave the table. That's something you do have enough of a warning to leave. If someone burps but excuses themselves, I see no reason to make a fuss. But if they blow their nose, I'd ask if they must do that.
2006-07-18 03:18:07 · answer #3 · answered by Garfield 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A small accidental burp should be followed by an "excuse me." Blowing noses at the table is NEVER acceptable.
2006-07-19 02:16:58 · answer #4 · answered by wmp55 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your first question: YES!
Your second question: First, I aviod dinning out with anyone who would do such things. If it does happen I inform them that their actions are both crude and in the future make certain they do it elsewhere!.... (the restroom etc.).
If you or those you're out with are pigs and don't care how you're perceived by others, or that those actions are typically offensive to other people... then its probably not a problem. Why not snort and hack up a loogie too while in the restaurant while you're at it???? If those things happen and/or are allowed, why not cut some big ones too??? That's always nice while dinning out as well.
2006-07-18 05:05:36 · answer #5 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they are a member of my party, they get a dirty look. If they are a stranger at another table, I ignore it. I am not Emily Post or a member of the etiquette police.
2006-07-18 03:12:32 · answer #6 · answered by karen wonderful 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, for as long as the burb is silent and you commence blowing of the nose with your head tilted away from the table.
2006-07-18 03:13:54 · answer #7 · answered by Ralf J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a bit disgusted when someone does one or the other... I understand sometimes it's a slip up, but when it's done purposely then it's uncalled for.
2006-07-18 03:12:10 · answer #8 · answered by ridersinthesky11 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my sister does this....not only does she pass gas and blow her nose in open public....she leaves her nasty napkins with her nasty snot all over them laying around wherever she has been...she makes me want to vomit
what i have learned helps to sustain the grossness of it is visualize her drowning in a pool of snot and stomping on her head!!
2006-07-18 14:39:36 · answer #9 · answered by Cap'n Donna 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't do these, you will end up in a hospital.
2006-07-18 04:46:23 · answer #10 · answered by yzkorpyo17 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋