Bad table manners, do they put you off a person?

I’m quite easy going and laid back but yes, poor table manners would put me off a person, if they actually belched noticeably, I would just get up and leave !

Eating noisily with their mouths open or speaking with their mouths full, I would not be eating with them again

Elbows on tables or using the wrong cutlery wouldn’t bother me so much
 
My first wife would burb/belch at full volume no matter who was at the table. We were at a church dinner after service with some devout Christians who were a bit conservative, when she she let loose a big one. Everyone was aghast ( except me - I was used to it ), and she would giggle her way through the incident, and go right on eating.:)
 
Yes. There was a guy I liked very much in high school. He was a football player and the evening after the team had won their Saturday afternoon game, a bunch of us went out for Chinese food. When the food arrived at the table, this guy I liked stood up and took control of food distribution. He began tossing a spare rib, a chicken wing, a butterfly shrimp from platter he was holding instead of passing it around to let us all serve ourselves from where he was standing. 😖

I thought this was such a low class trashy thing to do I never felt the same about him afterwards.
 
My children complain that they grew up with "Mr. Manners". Guilty as charged. It certainly was a big deal when I was growing up -- to the point of the proper angle to cut the butter.

I try to be more tolerant with my grandchildren. But I admit it is like fingernails across the blackboard when my daughter-in-law gnaws the meat off her fork or my youngest grandchild licks her plate.
 
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