for a totally blind person, it certainly is a problem. but the chinese food accept choupsey, can be managed easily. i use fork to eat noodles but don't use the knives to cut it short. many other people don't, too. Massala Dossa is also a problem. but other varieties of it work very well. I think, the main thing is, if one follows the basics of table manners, these things hardly matter. many mates have some or the other habit which some times is not tollerable. but one has to accept friends in totality and not in selectively.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Syed Imran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:37 AM Subject: [AI] Using spoons, forks, knives and other such cutleries > Hi > > In fact, today's incident influenced me to write this on access India. It > was somewhat hillarious, somewhat embarrassing > After Christmas celebration in our college, I went to have lunch in our > college caffeteria. Usually I bring my lunch box to college, but today I > just forgot it at home. So, I and some of my friends went to caffeteria > along with our Economics ma'm. Sitting on a seat in front of a circular > granite table, I childishly said "noodles", when my friends asked me what > I wanted to have. I gave the money to my friend, and he brought me a plate > of noodles. > It contained two disposable plastic forks, and boy, I thought this time I > am caught! "No, not this time," I said to myself, "I somehow ought to give > my best shot, best impression! and its going to work, somehow its going to > work.". After thus assuring myself, I started on my own. I'm not going to > narrate what happened then, but I ended up lying them that the food was > not tasty and I then returned to classroom. > First of all, it was embarrassing to discuss any kind of issue like this > on the list, but I have overcome such embarrassment. As is the case, I > would like to know some of your tips of using cutleries, like spoons, > forks, knives etc properly, in front of sighted folks. > Yes, one can always use their hands to have the food, but I think we > too are entitled to eat "attractively". If not attractively, at least to > save the time of washing our hands after the meal, we need to use such > things. > > With best regards > Syed Imran > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
