However, certain degrees of enthusiasm may be more appropriate for “at home” dining versus “eating out.”
For instance, let’s say you have decided to “eat out” for your breakfast, and you have just ordered the dish you want.
Here, it is traditional to allow your waitress (no matter how large, featherless, or unskilled she may be) to first serve it to you before you begin to consume it.
Well, heck….I can see my breakfast right in here.The service around here is terrible.It is one of my favorite dishes too – sunflower seeds with other stuff mixed in.Maybe the waitress is new….I’ll just show her the ropes.Delicious. Just like I knew it would be.Oh good – the second course is here!This dish is very tasty too.Uh oh. That waitress is heading my way again. I’d better glare and grip the dish with my talons so she doesn’t try to “serve” this one to me too.
Yes, Pearl my Charlie agrees with you sometimes the service is just to slow and one needs to take control! Good self-service skills!
Sounds like Charlie’s got a firm handle on self-service too – they’ve got their featherless assistants well trained!