Not a pet peeve but!.....

[Jack Peterson]

I was going to put this in the Filipina Forum but it is not just the ladies at all, We sat down for Lunch yesterday and as the Food arrived so did a couple of Youngsters on the next table to ours which was very Close, So we began to eat when the Girl takes out her comb and starts to comb her hair, Dropping stands about the Table and some on ours, I just looked at her and she said Problema? yep I said, I did not order Human hair or any hair for Lunch, Right over her head it went, Then F....k me if the Boy borrowed her Comb and did the Same, I called the Staff and to my surprise they were asked to leave having been told we have CR's here. Of course there were words said But.......................... Table manners are just not taught here at all in my view 

[Mike J]

3 minutes ago, Jack Peterson said:

I called the Staff and to my surprise they were asked to leave having been told we have CR's here.

Sounds like they want and need your business more than theirs.  

[Jack Peterson]

48 minutes ago, Mike J said:

Sounds like they want and need your business more than theirs.  

 I tend to think the Point has been Missed My Friend Not about Business or the needs of owners and management but Manners 

[sonjack2847]

Manners are lacking with most people here, it`s all about the self and stuff everybody else.

[Mike J]

18 minutes ago, Jack Peterson said:

I tend to think the Point has been Missed My Friend Not about Business or the needs of owners and management but Manners 

Maybe we are close to being on the same point.  My point was that the ability to survive and grow his business was sufficiently important to address the issue with the kids.  This is often not the case where much of the culture revolves around the concept of SIR, Smooth Interpersonal Relationships.  Had you not been there, or not said anything, do you honestly think the issue would have been addressed?

[Jack Peterson]

3 minutes ago, Mike J said:

do you honestly think the issue would have been addressed?

 But I was there and it was sorted Now Mike lets hear your views on the issue for Instance do you let your Kids or anyone Comb Hair at the meal table? because this is the issue not about a man running a Buisness

 

Edited August 18, 2019 by Jack Peterson

[RBM]

Perhaps slightly off topic how ever we  were enjoying an excellent  Mexican dish in Dumaguete a month or so back. A couple entered with a young kids perhaps 2 years old whom squealed like one has ever heard before.  We transferred to the far corner to no avail, the high pitched  repulsive squealing continued unabated.   Was impossible to eat.

We requested management to do something as we are known to them. They respectfully, politely refused. Our feelings  were not to request the parents to control their kid as it most likely would escalate. So we just had them pack our food and left.

Amazingly other people seem unaffected from this, or alternatively just accepted it.

[Jack Peterson]

4 minutes ago, RBM said:

Amazingly other people seem unaffected from this, or alternatively just accepted it.

 I hear you Bruce and sympathise  but Noise is one thing, personal hygiene is another  

[Eddie1]

1 hour ago, sonjack2847 said:

Manners are lacking with most people here, it`s all about the self and stuff everybody else.

I tend to agree with your statement Kev, I used to think that Pinoy have bad manners but the more I thought about it the more I came to the conclusion that good manners have actually never been taught to many of them in the first place.  Having said that though, it is annoying when you are the victim of somebody socially inept.

[JDDavao II]

2 hours ago, Jack Peterson said:

Table manners are just not taught here at all in my view 

Manners are for you. For me, it's "Do whatever I like". It's the same attitude for everything here, IMHO.