Expensive Miss Manners: I used to be watching a tv sequence and one of many characters, a really well mannered girl, answered her granddaughter’s query with meals in her mouth. She positioned the meals in her cheek and saved her mouth as closed as potential.
I truly discover that acceptable – extra so than making her granddaughter anticipate a response whereas she chews and swallows. However I am curious to know Miss Manners’ opinion.
GENTLE READER: In Miss Manners’ opinion, Frederick Winslow Taylor, the effectivity theorist, was a lot funnier as an object of ridicule within the “Pyjama Recreation” than he’s now—when nobody remembers his identify, and but everybody believes with spiritual certainty. That competence is extra vital than morals or ethics.
No, Miss Manners would quite Granny take a number of seconds to swallow earlier than answering. And that the granddaughter can have the respect and endurance to attend.
She herself would have used these seconds for an amusing pastime questioning why actors and administrators in tv (and movie and theatre) spend a lot time studying about lighting and costumes, and so little studying about manners, which she believes are extra vital in filming. Persuasive persona.
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