how's your german etiquette? are you making the grade, or failing miserably? i definitely know that i have failed a few...i have at least once or twice made everyone in my dr's office mad, and have not always made eye contact while clinking the glass!! what about you?
Hi! The German Etiquette rules are so funny! Loved it :)
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hi ms. r!! thanks for the post. the germans are serious about their etiquette. i especially like the one about men sitting down to pee...seriously???
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that I was insulting my MIL every single time I spoke with her because I didn't send greetings to her partner ("boyfriend" seems such a trivial term, they've been together longer than M and I). Flash forward two years, and we have a serious argument and that is fuel added to her fire. Seriously, do I need to send greetings every. single. time? Don't even get me started on #10 (table manners)!
ReplyDeleteoh you are insulting her diana!! haha.
ReplyDeleteThat kind of goes with my recent blogpost, "Shopping barefoot in Germany and other cultural Faux Pas" - seems like we Germans just like to pretty much frown upon anything anyone else does. So true about the Gruesse. I have relatives who even ask me during the NEXT phone call, did you deliver the Gruesse I sent the last time, and of course I always choke because I never deliver any Gruesse. I forget them as soon as I hang up.
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