Epimetheus

Mind Your Manners?

You would think the following questions would be rhetorical, but unfortunately, they are not.

1. You are sitting on a stool enjoying Kaiten Zushi (回転寿司). Do you:

   1. pick up the plates, examine the contents, and then return the plate to the conveyor belt?

   2. visually examine the content as it passes by and pick up only the plate of sushi you intend on eating?

   Please. For the love of all that is holy. Choose b.

2. When out at a restaurant, have you ever:

   1. used a toothpick to remove that one piece of offensive food lodge between your teeth?

   2. wiped your hands on a napkin to remove oil and other debris?

   3. pulled out a Q-tip and started digging earwax out of your ear?

   ….

3. Back to Kaiten Zushi. As a plate of roasted chestnuts passes by do you:

   1. remove the plate and then divvy up the chestnuts?

   *Sigh* or

   2. grab a handful of chestnuts for yourself and then an extra large handful for your two friends; thus, leaving a few chestnuts for the other customers to stare at in disbelief?

   Kaiten Zushi rules are simple. Here they are: If you touch a plate, it is yours.

4. Final hygiene question. Is it okay to pluck your eyebrows in a restaurant and then put the unwanted hairs in one of the cups at your table?

   1. Yes.This is the wrong answer.

   2. NO.

   3. Maybe?

5. (P)ossible? (I)mpossible?

   • ___ Can you pick up a DS or PSP with two standard flexi-straws?

   • ___ Can you carry an injured man using a pair of chopsticks? The assumption here is that the man has not been blown or chopped to bits.

   No, right? Think again.

   Guy-pouring-money-into-one-of-those-crane-games, or UFO Catcher, in my local video store, “Hey, I know I can pick up this case of ramen!”

   I am sorry, good sir, but there are only two paddle/hook thingies that are designed to pick up stuffed animals at your disposal. You will not succeed.

NOTE* I am aware that I am far from perfect. Points out the time he destroyed the handiwork of one a waiter. This waiter had spent a fair amount of time fashioning the tinfoil surrounding my leftovers into a duck. Without looking, I grabbed it and bunched it up. According to KB, the waiter was a bit upset. Sorry, dude.