The president of the credit union where my wife works has an employee Christmas party every year. This year it was at HIS house (mansion on the intracoastal waterway) and he decided to invite personal friends in addition to the employees. I hate going but I have to because it's the "right" thing to do and the wife threatens to do something evil to me in my sleep if I act up at the party. The president, how do I say this?, is fond of men.
Well, there was roughly 200 people at the party and I'd say men out numbered the ladies at least 3 to 1. We weren't there 5 minutes before I opened my politically incorrect mouth and embarrassed the wife.
I settled down after I put in a chew of Redman and made it known I was happily married.
This is where things took a turn for the worst. I was standing next to the Hors'dourves (sp) talking to some people whom I felt comfortable with when I noticed this guy double dip his shrimp into the cocktail sauce and discard the tail back onto the tray of shrimp. In fact, the tail landed on top of uneaten shrimp. Of course I made a somewhat rather loud comment. Not a minute later another guy came over and did the same thing followed by a lady who peeled the tail off before double dipping and threw the tail onto the uneaten shrimp. Very sarcastically I said "so what do you think about DOUBLE DIPPERS?"
Where are these people's manners? We're talking multi millionaires arriving in Rolls Royces and Bentleys.
Another lady came over to the vegetable tray and dunked her celery into some dip and then LEANED over the tray and consumed her food. I mean she actually BENT over at the waist and ate over the rest of the food. That did it for me. I made it very clear to others whom I knew as to what was going on and before I knew it, I had a crowd of about 10 people gathered around making faces and refusing to eat anything.
The same group of double dippers demolished that shrimp and vegetable platter and every time someone different would take a shrimp and dip it, I would say "how's that shrimp taste?" They would just look at me clueless.