Etiquette Quiz #3 Answers
1. When you sit down at a dinner table for 10, it is correct to start eating:
b. When the hostess begins eating. You should always wait for the host or hostess to begin before eating. The exception is when the hostess says to start because the food will get cold.
2. When dining out, is it ok to ask your dining partner for a taste of their entree?
b. No – you should keep your fork on your plate. Reserve this practice for home, when no one is looking.
3. When two colleagues – one a man, the other a woman, reach a door, does the woman wait for the man to
open it?
b. Whoever gets to the door first, opens it.
4. When a man and a woman are walking on the street, does the man walk on the outside – closer to the street?
b. No – this practice started when there were horses and buggies on the street, so that the woman would stay clean from the spray of mud. This practice is no longer practical and hardly observed anymore.
For the answer “This is no longer practical and hardly observed anymore.” on question number 4, did you know that in newer and some older housing areas where higher class families live, towns have a grassy area between roads and sidewalks to allow splash room for passing vechials.