or overly formal in the list of good manners. The first and basic one should be the reminder that etiquette isn't about impressing people, it is about not making others uncomfortable-and elbows on tables displace food, cutlery and glassware. Open mouths with food-well, duh. Non food items on the table-dirty-who would want that? If you need your phone/purse, put it in your lap with phone on vibrate mode. Purses get set on the floor in bathrooms, public places etc. You really want it where your forks are?
I never really got the bread/butter one, but I can live with it.
or overly formal in the list of good manners. The first and basic one should be the reminder that etiquette isn't about impressing people, it is about not making others uncomfortable-and elbows on tables displace food, cutlery and glassware. Open mouths with food-well, duh. Non food items on the table-dirty-who would want that? If you need your phone/purse, put it in your lap with phone on vibrate mode. Purses get set on the floor in bathrooms, public places etc. You really want it where your forks are?
I never really got the bread/butter one, but I can live with it.