4 things we find really annoying at the table
Great. Tonight, you’re going to eat an incredible côte de boeuf with friends at a new restaurant. Once you’re seated, the wine is delicious and the meal is even better than expected. Everything’s okay, except for the behavior of your irritating table companions. One spreads whole slices of bread, while another steals food from your plate.
Your chewing table companion
Yes, this is genuinely a thing, and it’s called misophonia. You get furious (often on the inside) when you hear someone chewing. Someone on the editorial team suffers from it too, and this anonymous person can’t focus on anything else. There’s very little you can do about it, because you can’t exactly say: stop eating. Good news if it really becomes a problem: it’s a genuine disorder, and you can get treatment for it at the AMC. Yes, really—the only place in the world.
The food thief
The waiter arrives with all the dishes and expertly places them on the table. He then explains exactly what’s on your plate. But then something terrible happens. Before you’ve even had a chance to taste it yourself, a table companion steals a bite from your plate. Blood-boilingly annoying. Not cool, don’t do it. Sharing is caring, but only after you’ve had your own first bite.
The bread basket
The bread basket is often empty before you’ve even had a chance to take a piece, but that’s not even the worst part. You can simply ask for some more bread. What’s really incredibly annoying is when your table companion takes a whole piece of bread and then spreads it as if they’re making a casino white sandwich with sausage for lunch. What would be preferable? Tear off a piece of bread, people. And what you do with it afterwards is none of our concern.
The bill
We totally understand that someone might not have much money to spend. We all struggle with that regularly (in our case, anyway). But everyone knows someone who wants to calculate, down to the cent, exactly what everyone ate and drank. Were you drinking cola all evening while the rest drank bottles of wine? Then you really don’t have to pay for the alcohol. But that one beer more or less doesn’t matter, does it? Next time, you’ll drink a little more again. Just split the bill.
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