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Another Etiquette Question

I was in the grocery store, well Schnucks if you have to know.  I was headed towards the cash registers when I spied a late middle-aged women in front of me who I thought was also headed towards the checkout.  She was very heavy set and wearing yoga pants or whatever those tight, clinging pants are. Just as an aside, I think there should be some social construct that would necessitate that people wearing such articles of clothing should have themselves videoed walking away from the videographer.  If they are good with how they look, so be it.

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Childhood Memories of Emily Post

I was leaving the neighborhood in my pick-em-up truck when I noticed a middle-aged woman walking her dog.  She was of what used to be call an average built, but now days would pass for skinny.  What grabbed my attention was that she was wearing some very short shorts. She had bent over from the waist to clean up after her pet, and her derriere, encased in the bare minimum, was pointed directly at me.  I waffled between staring and not looking.

This brought up a childhood memory.  My mother had a book of etiquette in the house.  There are several from that period, but for some reason I remember it as being Emily Post’s book, Etiquette.  It may have well been another author, but that one pops to mind.  They appear to have been fairly Continue reading “Childhood Memories of Emily Post”