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28 Aug 2021 22:26 #295 by Cryptic
Yah know I never actually looked at the first post of the old thread.

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Does one not have a right to sound exasperated when when asking for something to be passed at the dinner table when the person who should have passed it to you already hasn't (several times!) and is digging into their own plate?

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31 Aug 2021 06:22 - 31 Aug 2021 06:24 #340 by Kettlekorn
If you've already asked for it to be passed and they didn't, then yes, total right to sound exasperated. If you only mean that they should have known to pass it without being asked because of common sense, etiquette, manners, or what have you, then possibly not. Everybody always thinks their particular brand of manners is "just common sense" but in my experience manners and etiquette are one of the most common areas you encounter alien and arbitrary value systems. Straight up orange and blue morality bullshit. So unless you've already gone through this with them in the past enough times that they should remember by now, I'd say err on the side of being patient because maybe they just measure the world along a different axis than you do.

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31 Aug 2021 12:03 #342 by Cryptic
A: the not-passer is one of the people I learned my manners from, my Father.
B: Yup gone through this several times
C: He passed the meat fine that night, why not the taters?

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03 Sep 2021 18:26 #381 by Cryptic
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