The author recounts an awkward experience at a college football game where the university president condescendingly treated them due to their alma mater. They then ask Miss Manners for advice on dealing with this situation and another regarding the proper serving of pie a la mode.
I was invited by a friend who works in our state’s governor’s office to attend a college football game in the university president’s box. This is a nationally recognized university, but not an Ivy League school. At the game, the president asked me what college I had attended, then gave me a condescending stare when I named the school (which I attended over 50 years ago). My alma mater is a state university, not unlike his institution, and it was all I could afford at the time.
He then proceeded to correct my grammar on something else I had said. It was an odd, technical correction, and I think my words reflected my regional dialect rather than any misuse of the English language. Still, it surprised me and felt very awkward. I didn’t respond to his comments, but instead thanked him for allowing me to visit his box, and then walked away. I was embarrassed for the friend who had brought me, who kept apologizing to me. Since this has never happened before, and I enjoy attending college football games whenever offered, I would like to know how Miss Manners would have handled this.: For what is the university recognized nationally? Tolerating a president with nothing better to do than embarrass a guest? Is that his technique for charming alumni and donors? Miss Manners would have handled the situation exactly as you did. And probably advised her young relatives to apply elsewhere.: Should pie a la mode be served on a plate with a fork, or in a bowl with a spoon? I am always frustrated when I am served a dessert topped with a scoop of ice cream on a flat plate with a fork. The ice cream invariably melts and is impossible to eat, especially if the pie is warm! When I suggest that it should be served in a bowl with a spoon, I am told that is not how pie should be served. What says Miss Manners?: That the fork and spoon are not like a couple who had a nasty divorce and are forcing their friends to choose between the
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