ANST - Cloved Fruit and Etiquette, Redux

erland at ix.netcom.com erland at ix.netcom.com
Tue Jan 27 21:21:05 PST 1998


Erland here

I feel compelled to add my 2 cents here. The grenade thing started as a
joke. There were WAY TOO MANY cloved things(including a tomato!)
wandering the woods at night...it just wasn't safe. It is important to
understand though, that when one of us was offered a cloved fruit we
didn't just haul off and pitch it. We started off just bringing the
things back to our camp and taking them out of circulation. The grenade
thing was a joke that took place in our campsite. It never would have
happened if we had thought to give Rai a cloved beer cause he sure
wouldn't have pitched THAT. 
Manners ARE important whether at SCA functions or elsewhere. I know I
try hard to be polite. Rai doesn't have to try, it comes naturally to
him.

>Timothy A. McDaniel wrote:
> 
> Gunnora Hallakarva <gunnora at bga.com> wrote:
> > Those of us who will hurl the damned things do try to refuse
> > the fruit politely first.
> 
> The person may be an out-of-kingdom transplant,
> for example, and may not know that many people frown upon it
> here.
> 
> As for hurling after refusing: Miss Manners would decry
> that, saying that rudeness is not proper cause for rudeness
> (I would give an SCA example that dishonorable conduct on
> the field is not just cause of a dishonorable reply).  Mind
> you, I'm just reporting Miss Manners.  Now, if it becomes an
> assault, then the realm of manners and the realm of law is
> entered.
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