What pisses me off: A spoonful of manners!

What pisses me off? People who don’t use a spoon to get jam out of the jar and other such simple courtesies.

I get so pissed off when visitors come for a meal and show that they have no manners.

Take getting jam out of the jar for instance.

So many people just dip their knife into the jar, even though I always put a spoon next to it.

Once a person’s knife has been dipped into the jam jar, it usually leaves globs of butter in the jar. I find that quite disgusting.

Sometimes the person even licks their knife before putting it in the jar, how gross is that?

Over the years I have lost count of the numbers of jars of jam I have had to throw out. There is nothing worse than a jar of jam with huge chunks of butter mixed into it.

The thought of the butter – and maybe even saliva from the licked knife – is almost too much to bear.

One look is enough to make me physically ill. When I was a kid, my dad would insist on jam being put into a cute little dish on the table, and a jam spoon placed beside it. I thought he was a bit strange, but now I have seen what happens if this is not done.

So, Dad, you were not as strange as I thought…in fact, from now on I am going to do that same.

What is your table manner pet peeve? What bad manners do you hate? Tell us in the comments below…