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I'm in love with "The Urban Etiquette Handbook", this week's cover story in New York magazine. My favorite rules include "Pedestrians can die of secondhand smoke, too" and "Who pays the bill on a date? The asker pays, unless the woman does the asking - then the man should pay."
I've been asked a few etiquette questions recently; the other day our friend Andy was out at dinner with The Guy and me and asked, "When you're the third wheel, who are you supposed to sit across from?" First of all, Andy, when you're out with the two of us, you're not the third wheel, you are the guest of honor; we are both there to see you. Second, I looked it up in Emily Post's Etiquette, 16th Ed. (Yes, everyone, I'm a big dork - I do own this book, and what's even worse, I bought it for myself. I pretended it was for research for writing projects, but we all know that was just an excuse.) Emily Post, unfortunately, does not talk about dinner parties of three. She does, however, provide some hints: when seating people, alternate the women and the men. I think this could be safely extrapolated to indicate that a male guest should sit across from the woman when eating with a couple. I think, however, that a female guest should probably also sit across from the woman of the couple; for one thing, girls like to catch up, and for another, as New York magazine reminded us, women get special treatment when out to dinner.
PS - for those ladies who were at Roz's pre-wedding lunch a while back, Marianne was right, the person being toasted does not raise her glass or drink.
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