A guest recounts an awkward experience at a college football game where the university president made condescending remarks and corrected their grammar.
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. 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: Is that how a university president treats guests? 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
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