DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m penning this on a flight to Dallas after the flight attendant simply served my delicate drink. Is it simply me, or are different airline passengers simply as irritated by the best way these drinks are served?
Most of the time, the attendant will stand within the aisle, examine the drink order checklist, then seize the highest of the cup with their fingers round its lip earlier than handing it to the passenger. If this had been a restaurant, you’ll by no means return.
I needed to refuse my drink as a matter of precept, however the pretzels in addition they served had been calling my identify.
Why can’t all airways do a greater job in coaching their flight attendants on the very fundamental etiquette of serving a drink in a cup?
GENTLE READER: How are you aware what the flight attendant coaching entails? Maybe the security of defending your pants from spills is prioritized over cup-lip hygiene.
To be clear, Miss Manners doesn’t condone the observe. However in case you are squeamish, she would counsel that you just not look too carefully at both the passing of the cups or the opposite sanitary practices on airplanes. That’s, for those who nonetheless need these pretzels.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I flew to the house of a good friend to assist her with a challenge as a favor.
She has two cats, and sadly I found that she retains her two litter containers positioned in frequent areas. One was in the lounge, adjoining to the kitchen, and the opposite was very near the eating room desk.
Each cats had been allowed on the eating desk and on the kitchen counter tops. There was cat litter on the ground close to the containers, and the surfaces within the eating room and kitchen weren’t clear.
I discovered this all to be nauseating, to say the least. I attempted to deal with this example and bought nowhere. I used to be so uncomfortable due to this, and different unwelcoming facets of the go to, that I left a number of days early.
I really feel badly that I left earlier than the challenge was accomplished, nevertheless it was a really tense scenario which was clearly not going to vary. Was there one other method to handle this example?
GENTLE READER: You may have uncared for to say to Miss Manners the way you addressed it right here. In case you mentioned, “I’m sorry, but I seem to be having a reaction to the cats being out and about. I’m afraid for my health, and will have to leave early,” it could have been fantastic.
In case you mentioned, “Your house is disgusting and your cats smell. I’m outta here!” — that will be much less fantastic.
As tempting as it might be, one can’t dictate how others preserve their properties. You possibly can management the way you react to it, nonetheless. Even whereas nauseated.
