Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Daniel, My mother taught me that when I was three years old-- 75 years ago! Jerry Daniel Ridings wrote: > I noticed in my PAW this week that there is something that took a > while to learn when I came to Sweden. > > Here's the link again and look at the position of the knife and fork > on Gunn's (that's her name) plate: > > http://www.dlridings.se/paw/2007/36.html > > If you finish eating and put your silverware any other way than she > had done, you will get the host and hostess offering you more and more > food, second helpings, on and on ... > > By placing your silverware the way she has, it means: I'm finished. > You will be offered desert or coffee, but you won't be terrorized with > second and third helpings :-) > > Took a while to pick up that trick ... > > Daniel >