Etiquette Tuesday: Blow or Not to Go??

Gross, gross, gross and more gross. We are talking about blowing your nose at the dinner table in a restaurant. If you're at home, different story, go by your own rules. Recently, we went out with a friend and this is when we began questioning the etiquette behind having to blow your nose while dining out. Now it didn't bother us when our friend blew their nose, not once, but twice, but the people sitting across from us did not hide their displeasure and gave us a snappy side eye. After a moment of the awkward eye contact, we put ourselves in their shoes. Would we want someone to let out a hard, snotty blow as we take that first bite of our lobster bisque?? No. This is how this post came to life.

Now we understand this is flu and cold season and people are going to be sick, but maybe these folks should think about this is as the season to hibernate. Hibernating does not mean you should be confined to the house, but when it's really a rough, stuffy nose day, you should probably avoid the restaurant scene. It just makes it uncomfortable for you having to constantly blow in between bites and the other patrons are scared your going to blow some unnecessary germs on their lentil soup. Dining out is supposed to be fun not a suffer-fest, which is what it will be for all parties. Let's leave the box of tissues @ home.

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