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Thread ID: 125150	2012-06-09 10:23:00	Manners maketh the prospective son-in-law???....	ReefRunner (16049)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1280814	2012-06-10 02:30:00	Thank you all, some very strong opinions especially from Metla. The suggestion that this young man would become my son-in-law was just me being facetious, I hope that he and my daughter will gain some experience of the different types of potential partners before making their final decisions. I can report that the young man phoned me to apologise for his actions, or lack of action, after having talked over the incident with his parents. I'm not saying that this validates my opinion on the wearing of headgear at the dining table but in the given circumstances he has accepted that he should, without hesitation, have removed said headgear when requested to do so by his hosts. He will be welcomed in my home and at my table as opportunity arises. Thanks again for your opinions.	ReefRunner (16049)
1280815	2012-06-10 03:48:00	Nothing wrong with strong opinion if they have merit. And we should always beware of those who know for certain.	Cicero (40)
1280816	2012-06-10 03:52:00	he should of removed his cap. End of story. Should HAVE removed , not should of. If we are going to be pedantic now, then let's go on about people with terrible grammar.	pctek (84)
1280817	2012-06-10 03:56:00	Well spotted pc.	Cicero (40)
1280818	2012-06-10 03:57:00	Good manners are not optional, for anybody. I suppose you would excuse farting, or belching at the table as acceptable. Nor do I accept anyone wearing a hat inside, failing to open a car door for a woman, letting a woman through a door first. Oooh!!! So, it must be an age thing...... :mad: Now, as a woman, why do I need a car door opened? Or need to walk through a door first? In fact, at work, when the guys come back in, I generally let them all go first. Simple common sense. I am much slower at going up the stairs than them. Stuffing around with this you don't have a penis so you must precede us stuff would hold them all up. This is making me side more with the guy in the hat now. Farting and belching being compared with a hat, hardly the same thing at all. I suppose you'll be saying woman shouldn't wear pants next, or have any part of their ankles bare and should be wearing gloves when going out, and the idea that they don't wear their corsets, my god, have them all shot. No doubt you wear your suit as is proper and your wife, forced to walk in front of you all the time, and no doubt not drive herself, had to wear her stockings, gloves, corset and ankle length dress as only civilised people do. Every else dressed differently is some uncouth savage right.	pctek (84)
1280819	2012-06-10 04:00:00	Thank you all, some very strong opinions especially from Metla. The suggestion that this young man would become my son-in-law was just me being facetious, I hope that he and my daughter will gain some experience of the different types of potential partners before making their final decisions. I can report that the young man phoned me to apologise for his actions, or lack of action, after having talked over the incident with his parents. I'm not saying that this validates my opinion on the wearing of headgear at the dining table but in the given circumstances he has accepted that he should, without hesitation, have removed said headgear when requested to do so by his hosts. He will be welcomed in my home and at my table as opportunity arises. Thanks again for your opinions.From your original post, you were not the host the restaurant was, did the restaurant ask for the hat to be removed? The dress standard is set by the restaurant not you.	plod (107)
1280820	2012-06-10 04:03:00	I think Richard was talking of the more genteel ladies.	Cicero (40)
1280821	2012-06-10 04:33:00	Thank you Cicero, I was indeed. If pctek does not enjoy a bit of old-fashioned common courtesy, then that is her right I guess. But it has nothing to do with age. I do however take some exception to the personal attack she made on me. Nothing she intimated could be further from the truth. Please don't descend to personal abuse, it is too unflattering.	Richard (739)
1280822	2012-06-10 04:43:00	From your original post, you were not the host the restaurant was, did the restaurant ask for the hat to be removed? The dress standard is set by the restaurant not you. And there I was thinking the host paid the bill.	Cicero (40)
1280823	2012-06-10 04:46:00	Thank you Cicero, I was indeed. If pctek does not enjoy a bit of old-fashioned common courtesy, then that is her right I guess. But it has nothing to do with age. I do however take some exception to the personal attack she made on me. Nothing she intimated could be further from the truth. Please don't descend to personal abuse, it is too unflattering. So, its all right for you to refer to someone as a pig for the crime of not wearing what you would dictate as long as they weren't here to see you do it?	Metla (12)
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