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For those of you subscribed to the Etiquette newsletter, you already know that this week we will be highlighting the importance of etiquette. In accordance with this focus, our forum question for the week is:

What was the first rule of etiquette you can remember being taught?

Think back as far as you can remember and let us know!!!

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The first thing I can remember being taught was:

If you cough, or if you sneeze
Cover your mouth, if you please.

I have no idea where I learned this, but when I visited the church I attended as a child, my then Sunday School teacher told me that I would always repeat it. Even when she'd ask specific questions, I'd always answer by saying this rhyme.

I don't know, I guess because it rhymed, it didn't seem so terrible to remember.

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The old standards of "Please" and "Thank You" were among the first things I was taught, as well as asking to be excused from the dinner table when I finished eating. Not talking with your mouth full of food. And of course, covering my nose and mouth when sneezing or coughing.


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Don't pick your nose! Come on I know you all did it when you were little. I still see little kids doing it and laugh.

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I didn't pick my nose (it grossed me out even then) but my sister did! Bleagh!


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DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL!

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For some reason, that one reminds me of "Don't play with your food!"

I also remember, "You're not leaving the table until your plate is clean." but that isn't etiquette is it. The torment of childhood. I'd love the skin and the body size but I'd never go back. eek!

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I remember "Please" and "Thank You" being the first things I was taught. I got a big lesson on those two words when I went to visit my grandparents in KC when I was young. They bought me one of those Fisher Price windup TV things and I absolutely refused to say Thank You for the gift. It sat on top of the mantle in their living room until they tricked me into saying Thank You...LOL!

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I'm not sure if this is the first one I learned, but it is the one that is most prominant...

Elbows off the table.


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Please and thank you followed by virtually everything else. My mom was a real stickler for proper etiquette.
My dh and I have had some conversations concerning this topic since his mom is British and some of the rules of etiquette he was taught conflict with some of the rules I was taught. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />


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