Q. When eating, my 15-year-old daughter knocks her teeth with
her fork or spoon. She is very amenable to being corrected, but we are about to join a large house-party where we will all be eating en famille, and! can't nag her in public. I can't stand the noise, so I imagine that none of the other adults will be able to stand it either. What do you suggest, Mary?
C.H., London SWIS
A. Choose an anodyne et-pression such as `Have you got enough salt?' and collude with your daughter that when she hears this question it is a coded message for 'stop blocking your teeth:
but more likely through laziness, I find myself, in informal dining situations, holding and using my fork 'not necessarily concave upwards' in my right hand. My wife informs me that this is totally unacceptable at any time, in any place. Is this really so?
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