In addition to hosting elite alumni reunions, I’m in the business of hosting elite family reunions. Each year, when members of my family gather together, BeCuz and I have our own gathering. This year, we selected a posh tapas style Asian restaurant for our reunion.
When our food arrived BeCuz granted me permission to pick up the entree plate and push the food onto my salad plate. “We can just scoop it off with our forks or, better yet, we can use our chopsticks.” “Oh, no. I don’t use chopsticks. Only pretentious people use chopsticks,” she replied. “Really? I don’t think that’s true,” I said, opened my chopsticks and began using them.
I successfully finished my initial portion of pad see ew and decided to have a little more when I realized my chopsticks were upside down – so pretentious of me.
Confucius may say man with one chopstick go hungry but pretentious woman with two upside down go back for seconds.