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Bad Behavior

Boorish behavior is ruining our appetite.

July 2006

By William Swanson

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Merely Annoying: Asinine: Hanging Offense: Sign of the Coming Apocalypse:

Beginning your order with “Can I have . . . ?”
Of course you can. It’s a restaurant.

Calling your server “Barkeep”
Your server has several reasons for loathing you, not the least this. The rest of us find it annoying as well.

Using a napkin in place of a Kleenex
Think about it.

Licking your fingers
If you hadn’t used your napkin as a Kleenex, you could use it for your sticky fingers.

Tip jars
What exactly has she done besides charge us $5.50 for a cup of coffee?

Laughing hysterically at everything your party says because someone once said you have an infectious laugh
You heard wrong. The term they used was obnoxious.

Cell phones

 

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