Today at dinner after visiting the Wieliczka salt mine I regrettably had to sit next to an American Woman who was on my tour who had absolutely no conception of how to behave at a public restaurant (let alone the classy one that the tour group was dining at).
During the meal, she ran her mouth constantly, blabbing to her girlfriends that she had met on the tour about meaningless subjects, stopping only to wolf down a piece of food, and never failing to start up again immediately after she had swallowed it. She was talking 3 times as loud as anyone else in the restaurant, yet failed to take any notice of this. In fact, there were several times during the meal when she was practically yelling, when everyone else was talking at a normal volume.
She would often lean over into the eating spaces of people next to her and put her elbows down into their spaces. Additionally, she would flail her arms around in overexaggerated hand gestures, so her arms also ended up disturbing the people sitting next to her.
[What was especially sad was that she looked to be at least 40 years old yet still had no conception of how to behave herself in a public eating place, yet none of the Polish women (or the Polish men for that matter) that I saw during my entire 2 week trip, even those in their teens and twenties, behavied in a manner even remotely similiar to hers.]
All in all, she disturbed everyone’s meal and gave off a very bad impression of America to the Poles who were dining at that restaurant that night.
This post is part of Luke Skywalker’s Poland Journal Written: Aug 2, 2007 Added to blog: Aug 16, 2007
Like both of my grandmothers say: They don,t know how to be women or ladies in this case.
That,s why a dining date is good to see if your lady is realy a lady.
One more thing, sometimes me and my friends talk about how ugly american women are because they are fat, psicotic and behave in ways that no man in here wold tolerate.
Why do they put silicone in boobs, in face, in ass? it is disgusting and gives them an artificial look.
it is much cheaper to have natural food diet and regular exercise, for example i walk a lot instead of spending money in the gymnasium, and i am in great shape.
It is time for men saying openly in women,s faces that we will not tolerate this kind of behavior, to speak openly about our thoughts, feelings and dreams, let them laugh, they laugh of their ignorance and they will only laugh once, because then they will stay in silence and listen.
When i started to talk openly about what i thought about “equality” and all that BS in women,s faces at first i saw criticism, then silence and now they listen and behave properly in my presence.
One woman that i know , now dresses and behaves more as a lady after i had a serious conversation about “equality”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_cuisine
I would be embarassed to be an American had I been there. By the way, your site’s very nice Luke.
Taras
No surprise there. At every restaurant here in the states noise volumes are through the roof. Most of the time it’ll be women who shout to get attention while talking.
“All in all, she disturbed everyone’s meal and gave off a very bad impression of America to the Poles who were dining at that restaurant that night.”
You actually believe the Poles are such provincial hillbillies that they form an opinion about any given country – especially the USA! – based on a single individual who happens to be from that country…?
Wow.
(And BTW, just because you disliked her purported loudness it doesn’t mean that others were necessarily as annoyed by her as you were.)