The most a lady may do in public is glance into her compact, powder her nose and maybe apply a quick swipe of lipstick.
Anything more, and you’re a tart, a hussy and No Better Than You Should Be.
I hope you are saying that with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Otherwise, you have issues.
How about the guy I saw who brushed his teeth at the table in a restaurant?
Thankfully, he didn’t spit once. He didn’t have to: he took his teeth out and carefully brushed them in his hand with an occasional dip of the toothbrush into his water glass.
Raise your hand if Ew.
An episode of “Barney Miller” used this incident. Funny show.
And I, OTOH, have issues with the trend to require that any tongue-in-cheek expression be smilied into obviousness. Of course she was, IRT her last line.
But on her first line, I’m with her – if you’ve decided to face the world with a made-up face, you should at least have most of it done before stepping out the door, and only need to put on brief finishing touches in public. Use the time in transit for something productive or edifying.
:o
Ummmmmmmm…
But I ONLY take bites at the stop lights (and there are PLENTY of those in ole Anchortown, just ask Chefguy), not when I’m actually operating the car.
I just can NOT eat when I first get up, normally I can just wait til I get to work and then when I finally am able to eat without feeling sick, I eat at my desk. But every once in a while, I find that I have to go somewhere formal-ish enough so that I cannot eat breakfast at my desk, but that I know if I don’t eat prior to that I’ll get all hypoglycemic and loopy.
So I’ll wait as long as possible, and then eat cereal (seems to be the least “gag inducing” to my early morning palate) on my way there.
I really, really, really don’t like eating first thing in the morning, I actually almost feel like I have morning sickness or something until about 10am.
I never asked for her to use an emoticon as I’m not too fond of them myself.
Still, it’s sometimes difficult to gauge intent with text only, *especially *with those that insist on having some sort of online persona that they alternatively post with.
Sigh. I hate simulposts. That was in reply to JRDelirious.
No noooo noooo.
Mustn’t powder anything in public, according to the Ladies’ Big Book of Ladylike Manners" only an quick application of lipstick is allowed, and then only after it’s apparent that you “couldn’t help it” because you had just eaten or drunk something.
I can’t imagine ANYone online in this day and age who would use the terms "tart, hussy and “no better than you should be” with any seriousness. I don’t know about other boards, but the SDMB doesn’t allow us to have alternate “personas”. We’re allowed on username/ID.
Yes, occasionally a person has to stop and think about whether someone is joking or not, but I agree wholeheartedly with JD it’s getting a bit ridiculous how every post has to be rife with disclaimers and explanations of what’s a joke, and what’s not, and/or be smilied to death.
I tend to remember the different posters’ posting styles and kindof “know” the ones who post a lot. Otherwise, I just give people the benefit of the doubt, particularly when it’s obvious that the general tone to the thread is jokish.
A new high in decadence- a tooth-brushing room!
Regarding the issue of putting on a full face of make up in public, it doesn’t gross me out, but it does confuse me the way ladies going about in rollers confused me years ago. Who are you making up for if not the general public? I have no problem with making up in a car driven by a loved one however.
Exactly: I saw a woman in the Shop Rite with a full head of hair curlers, and I thought, “what, you’re going to the opening of the Met tonight and have to look good for Brooke Astor, but for us you can look like a schlub?”
Re: applying makeup in public:
According to Miss Manners, one should never apply makeup in public, for the sole reason that it reminds people that you need it.
You don’t go to work on Arctic Blvd. do you? Cuz I’ve seen someone eating cereal in their car on that street.
Traveling south bound on I-75, thirty of fourty miles north of Chattanooga one Saturday Morning we pulled up behind one of those little foreign cars, maybe an MG or something simillarl with a single occupant. It was bouncing down the highway at the speed limit so we stayed our distance following it. Suddenly it sped up and left us in the dust. In place of just the driver there were two occupants, the driver and a girl.
Now that is what I would call a real distraction to safe driving!
Several years back, I watched a car weaving on the highway in front of me, and it finally ran off the road. I stopped to assist and promptly called the cops.
The idiot woman had been putting on her panty hose while driving. She was more embarassed about my seeing her with her skirt up and the hose on one leg than she was about the fact she had wrecked her car.
:wally
There’s a guy in an Audi that passes me occasionally on the way to work. He’s always got a book propped up on the steering wheel and likes to drive about 60 mph in a 35 zone. A few times though, I’ve been able to pin him behind me and not let him pass. I love those drives.
I will admit to some driving idiocy in the past, particularly while in college and soon after. Once I was on the way to a friend’s wedding in another town and didn’t want to take time out to change my clothes, so I changed everything, including my pants while driving on highway 69 in Iowa at full speed.
But the time I tried to eat McPancakes in a truck on the interstate in Nashville, I at least had the sense to pull over into the median lane to finish them. I was young. That’s the only excuse for eating those pancakes.
Somewhat off topic, a few years ago I was at a Borders Bookstore in Chicago relaxing in the lounge reading and a woman sat down next to me on the couch and proceeded to do her nails. The place reeked of polish and everybody was staring at her. She didn’t appear to be homeless or anything, but was totally oblivious to the fact that it stunk and she was in a bookstore.
I once changed into a full tuxedo while driving. Tie, cummerbund, shoes, and everything.
I was young. Well, younger…
I’m reminded of the “Mr. Bean” episode where he buys so much stuff that he can’t get into his car, so ends up sitting in a chair on the roof and rigging up a mop handle and rope to drive the car. Hilarious.