Oh god, this is my mother! Putting them away right is even worse – she won’t let anyone else put them away, because “everyone always does it wrong.” So my sister and I will fold towels…and leave them in the laundry basket for her to put away. Otherwise she’ll just go in and do it all over.
Most virgin drinks cost only $1 less than the alcohol drink (IME, of course, as always, YMMV), so wouldn’t you end up paying an absurdly high price for a glass of milk? Like $6 or something?
I have ordered milk in a bar, and like soda, it was $1.00, and I tipped $2 for the hassle.
No, she was from an old-money family that had been in the Pittsburgh area for generations.
She had a lot of very strong opinions about odd things that didn’t seem to demand strong opinions. For the most part, I had no problem going along since I really didn’t care, but the shoe and hand-holding things were pains.
Oddly enough, she was probably the most normal girlfriend I’ve ever had. I suppose that says something about my own sanity…
Probably, and I wouldn’t order milk in a bar necessarily, but it was like an 11 page discussion on it. If you order milk, and the bartender says, “Nope, can’t do it”, and you’re fine with that, no problem.
But people seemed to think you could NEVER order milk in a bar.
I’ve gone from one radical end of the toilet paper issue to the other. I used to be a solid “under” man because all paper towel machines mandate that posture, and who was I to disagree with the top people in the field? Later, I had the distinct advantages of the “over” approach explained to me, and converted. My GF never changes the roll anyway, so it’s not really an issue in our household.
I can absolutely see the point of the ketchup-is-anathema crowd. Really, I can. If one has gone to the trouble of creating a truly quality dog, adorning it with something that will overwhelm its taste is really an issue for the dog-maker. I still use the red stuff, though–it was easier to quit the gourmet dogs.
Honestly, if a bartender refused to serve me something I KNEW he had for some arcane reason like not knowing how to ring it up or something, that would be the last time I set foot in the place.
In my experience, designated drivers drink free more often than not. It’s a good practice.
I didn’t discover until some weeks after marriage that some people feel strongly that underwear has to be folded before being put away, and that simply cramming it all into the drawer is a sign of low moral character.
I found a site that goes into great depth analyzing it. I love that these two little words can send some people into conniptions. I resolve to use the phrase at least four times a day before breakfast.
In the early years of my marriage, one could place themselves in grave mortal peril by making the bed in such a manner that the open end of the pillow cases pointed outward.
Apparently it made it such that we’re two steps below poor white trash unless the pillow case openings pointed inward, towards the interior of the bed.
I am not making this shit up.
Fortunately, we had a daughter and all that crap got transferred to her. Sorry Sophie!
The stupid thing is that “You’re welcome” is equally meaningless. It’s simply something we’ve been conditioned to say
You are welcome…welcome to what? Welcome to do it again? Welcome to bother me with your petty problems? Welcome to make me go out of my way to do something you deem worth thanking me for? Pssh, they’re both the same thing. :rolleyes:
No, ONE person said that. He told us this story about how a friend of his went to a swanky bar on a blind date, and she ordered a glass of milk and omigawd, she TOTALLY RUINED IT!!! He told it in such a way that he thought we would be so shocked at her faux pas. Instead we all laughed at him, while he continued to lecture us over stupid etiquette rules. (Like your glass of pop HAS to have a lemon and/or lime wedge).
I wonder though if it would be a hassle to order an Irish coffee with decaf. (I can have booze, but caffeine triggers my seizures. Go figure). I <3 Irish coffees.