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Glass Etiquette

July 29th, 2009

You know how you feel when you invite someone over to your house for the first time?  You wonder if it’s clean enough, big enough, decorated nicely enough and so on.  Or how you feel before you go to a new restaurant for the first time. You wonder if your outfit is too dressy, too casual. I think you get the idea.  That’s the same way  I feel about my glasses when our dear friend Jim comes over. No, not reading glasses – drinking glasses.  Let me explain….

One of the first times our families went out to dinner together he asked the waiter to bring him an empty glass. He specified which kind of empty glass he would like and then proceeded to pour his drink from its original, substandard container into the new and improved one.  Clearly something must have been wrong with the first glass. You see, here is what Jim knew that I, and apparently many others, don’t understand…

1. Certain drinks have appropriate glasses
2. Glasses can be either masculine or feminine based on size, shape, color and texture
3. Women can drink from a masculine glass, but it is an insult to present a man with a feminine glass
4. and finally that size does matter!

So you see, the waiter had served Jim his very Manly beverage in a tall, slender glass that was obviously meant for a woman.  Duh!!! I understand that now and since Jim is my elder, I shall continue to study and learn all about glass etiquette.  ( I wonder if he thinks my martini glasses are too feminine!!)