Etiquette Sometimes its hard to keep up with all the things you are supposed to do, and the equally large list of things you aren't supposed to do to fit in with genteel company.

I can usually avoid the obvious and easy ones, like not hitting, biting, kicking or gouging people. The obvious and pernicious ones are a little more difficult, like nose-picking, crotch itching, eye-rolling, and double-dipping.

That leaves the even more evasive class, the subtle and easy ones. Things like walking through revolving doors and down escalators before a female companion, while at the same time letting them go through lines and up escalators in front of you. Movie theaters... Any guess? Well, you should go in first to push through the crowds.

What crowds? What movie theater are they going to in the 1950s?

So the final class of classless behaviors is the subtle and difficult tasks, these tend to be broadly defined rules based on outcomes I am incapable of achieving or influencing.

In the turn of phrase made popular by my friends in the gay and lesbian community. "Come as you are." And so here, I am.

Labels: Telephone polls and bicycle seats

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