german etiquette 101...


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?

5 comments:

  1. Hi! The German Etiquette rules are so funny! Loved it :)

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  2. 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???

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  3. I 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)!

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  4. oh you are insulting her diana!! haha.

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  5. That 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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