The table

[Pitooey]

I noticed that the table is always set with the forks, knives, & spoons all layed out so neatly like a real dinner table. I never do that. Only on a real special occasion do I do that.

[Pitooey]

Does anyone here eat like that?

[Frnk55]

Hell no! I only eat in the best place in the house which is the living room with tvland on. :p

[Pitooey]

:lol: :happyface :crazy: :happyface :lol: :happyface I didn't expect that......... :lol:

[Kristina]

Originally posted by Frnk55
Hell no! I only eat in the best place in the house which is the living room with tvland on. :p

Same here, lol.

[DarleneIllyria]

Originally posted by Frnk55
Hell no! I only eat in the best place in the house which is the living room with tvland on. :p

roflmao! That sounds like me. :)

[frani]

Just to add my baby boomer voice here. I always remember eating at the table with my parents. I didn't eat in front of the TV or at different times from everyone else till I was a grown up. I think it was a fifties and sixties convention. You had your place at the table and you had to ask to be excused in order to leave. If someone called, I had to tell them not to call during the dinner hour. All that was perfectly normal and acceptable. All my friends were like that too. You have to remember that there was a time when TV was not the dominent force it is now. Most of the families I knew were like the nuclear families portrayed on LTB. Two parents, two - three kids. Father went to work, etc. My mother went to work as a schoolteacher fairly early (when I was in sixth grade) but that was an acceptable women's profession) I'm a teacher now, so I can say that. LOL. People really didn't discuss things like sex, alcoholism, divorce back then. I would have to say that, although the familiy structure in LITB is idealized, the model is fairly correct. And believe me, that's not because my family was perfect, because we were far from it, but in the fifties and early sixties, appearences were everything.