On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:33:18 -0400, Julia Altshuler wrote:
>
> There's a special etiquette rule for large tables. If you're seated at
> a long banquet table, you wait until 2 people to your side have been
> served, then you eat. In other words, person 1 waits until 2 and 3 have
> their food before starting to eat. Person 2 waits until 3 and 4 have
> been served to start and so on. When folks are seated in husband and
> wife pairs, they wait in pairs.
>
>
> None of that is relevant to the situation at hand, but I think it's fun
> to know. If there are only 6 at the table, then everyone waits until
> all 6 are served, and the longish delay between one person being served
> and the others was awkward.
>
>
> --Lia

this i hadn't heard. no wonder miss manners threw me out of her house.

your pal,
blake