Etiquette Stories

Hat etiquette. Some have it, most don’t. It’s a shame, really. Good manners cost just a little time, but have the potential to gain you a lot of respect.Granted, people don’t wear formal hats very much any more, but that doesn’t mean that the average guy wearing a baseball cap, or similar informal headwear, shouldn’t show good manners. The doffing of one’s hat is an important skill to master. You can either take the hat o...

My most vivid memory of my evening with Prancer is not his admission that he was a murderer. Though unnerving it was consistent with his obvious paranoia. The most vivid memories are of what happened when I committed the faux pas of offering Prancer chopsticks with his General Tso’s chicken. Prancer was volatile. He could be aggressive one moment, but gentle and submissive the next. How I wound up eating Chinese food with...