Hat on or hat off

Ok,heres the thing.(I really dont like having things)
I have a thing about people wearing a hat at the dinner table.
I dont mind someone wearing a hat at a sports bar and eating if your sitting at the bar,but not at a dining table.
I have asked people at my home to please remove there hat/cap while eating dinner at the table.
Mc dees, or any of the burger joints dont matter to me,cuz,I never go there for a dinner anywhoo.
In fact,I bet I dont eat food from those burger joints no more than 3-5 times a year.
So, whats yous guys take/opinion on this thing I have.
HM, sounds like a POLL would help here.

Sitting at the dinner table with guests ,no hats.Sitting around in the backyard around the BBQ/Grill having beers and burgers/dogs....hats are cool.

I was raised no hats at the dinner table or during the national anthem.

Paul T

I can't wear hats. Hat's make me look like an idiot. The bigger issue is that hats will not stay on my head right. I've tried and I had to constantly adjust it. The only hat that ever stayed put was an authentic cloth chefs hat. And I hated it. I just don't like to wear hats. As far as someone wearing one at the table? No one ever has. Not at any table I've ever eaten at.

Gary Byrum said:

As far as someone wearing one at the table? No one ever has. Not at any table I've ever eaten at.

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Have you dinned in NH? :lol:
Me-self,Im not much of a hat person either.
Ill wear-em in the winter when its snowing and to keep the head warm.
At a rocket launch and if Im camping or doing something outside while its raining or snowing.

Scotty Dog said:

Have you dinned in NH? :lol:
Me-self,Im not much of a hat person either.
Ill wear-em in the winter when its snowing and to keep the head warm.
At a rocket launch and if Im camping or doing something outside while its raining or snowing.

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Never been to NH, but I'd like too. Bad manners are everywhere I suppose but wearing hats at the dinner table are apparently more of an issue beyond the Mason Dixon Line? It's just not something you see down here.

Oh yea!, and chew with your mouth closed too!

hornet driver said:

Oh yea!, and chew with your mouth closed too!

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uke:
Everytime I eat,food gets in my mouth.

sodmeister said:

Sitting at the dinner table with guests ,no hats.Sitting around in the backyard around the BBQ/Grill having beers and burgers/dogs....hats are cool.

I was raised no hats at the dinner table or during the national anthem.

Paul T

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Same here, except no beer for me...

hornet driver said:

Oh yea!, and chew with your mouth closed too!

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Now you light up an area that I HAVE seen. It's one thing to go to a Bojangles and pick your chicken with your fingers. But to watch someone eat their entire meal with their fingers gets on my last nerve. Chewing with your mouth open.......That's just really bad manners. And if you think that is bad, try sitting at the table with guests, and your girlfriend starts blowing her rattly congested nose. Or your buddy across the table cuts a really loud cheek flapper.

Gary Byrum said:

Now you light up an area that I HAVE seen. It's one thing to go to a Bojangles and pick your chicken with your fingers. But to watch someone eat their entire meal with their fingers gets on my last nerve. Chewing with your mouth open.......That's just really bad manners. And if you think that is bad, try sitting at the table with guests, and your girlfriend starts blowing her rattly congested nose. Or your buddy across the table cuts a really loud cheek flapper.

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Somebody blowing their nose at the table is my one pet peeve. Just saying...

Bear Bryant, who always wore his trademark hat during a game didn't wear it during a game in the Astrodome (or another domed stadium). When asked why, he said his mother always taught him to take his hat off indoors. A great coach and a great gentleman.

Sam

Same with Bum Phillips. No hats indoors. That's how I was raised as well.

Hats off at the dinner table and hung neatly on the back of the chair or laid under your chair. its a respect to mom thing

Yes, hats off. Also cell phone off and TV off.

LW Bercini said:

Yes, hats off. Also cell phone off and TV off.

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I was at the movies once and someone's cell phone went off. I wanted to chuck my drink at that %$#@#$%!
LB, remind me to tell you about that nose blowing thing on Tday. It's truly a funny story.

I am ex-military. One simply does NOT wear headgear indoors.


It is the way of things...

What really ticks me off is guys keeping their hats on during the National Anthem at a game or something. I will make it a point to call them out after the fact every time. Have some freaking respect man

I will always have my hat off for the national anthem, that's just how I was taught to do it.

That being said, myself and my dad nearly always have a baseball cap on. Mine will occasionally be off, and my hair in a ponytail, but my dad's is like it's glued and can only be removed on special occasions and when it's time to sleep.




Braden

Hats off inside and especially at the dinner table... If i have to remove your hat it isnt going to be pretty and usually will involve you not eating as well

other reasons i feel a hat should be taken off
national anthem (given)
when greeting your parents or someone who is of superiority
when paying respects
when i say to take it off

sunglasses at at the table/indoors pisses me off just as much if not more...

No option for my response.

It's customary to take your hat when seated at the table under normal situations.

There is a requirement of one religion to wear hat and coat during a specific celebratory dinner.

That being said, I have always instructed my kids to remove their headgear at the dinner table.

Gee, and I thought *I* was an old fashioned fuddy-duddy...

Sorry, but I've just never gotten the whole "no hats indoors" CRAP... It's just that-- CRAP... some stupid ancient CUSTOM that people have grown SO accustomed to they've nearly turned into holy writ...

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other reasons i feel a hat should be taken off
national anthem (given)
when greeting your parents or someone who is of superiority
when paying respects
when i say to take it off

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Those are not reasons so much as situations. What is the reason other than "my mother told me so and so I will tell you so"?

Here I agree with luke strawwalker wholeheartedly.

Gee, and I thought *I* was an old fashioned fuddy-duddy...

Ya know, I appreciate the idea of respect, especially to elders and all that, and other people's home, and the national anthem, and you BETTER not wear a hat in CHURCH!, but honestly, other than that, I've never really gotten the whole "no hats indoors" line of CRAP... and it's just that-- CRAP... it's some STUPID, OUTDATED, ANCIENT "TRADITION" that some people elevate to the level of holy writ, and IT'S NOT!

The stupid school in town that I used to go to here in Needville used to bat-sh!t crazy if you wore a hat indoors... had to be THE SINGLE STUPIDEST, NONSENSICAL THING that I have EVER seen or heard of... WHO GIVES A SH!T IF I HAVE A HAT ON, (unless its for one of the previous aforementioned reasons-- guess what-- the flippin' stupid school AIN'T NO CHURCH! I used to wear a ball cap all the time when I was in school, because I usually got on the tractor as soon as I got home and went to work in the field... Plus it kept the relentless sun out of my eyes walking between buildings and all that at the school...

From what I've seen, people that get all bent out of shape about something AS COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY SILLY as wearing a hat "indoors" are just looking to make an @$$ of themselves by raising a stink about it... THAT'S IT. WHAT HARM can it POSSIBLY do to YOU IF *I* wear a hat indoors?? Precisely NONE, that's what! Like I said, if it's your house, yeah just as a courtesy I wouldn't wear a hat, but if we're in a public building, school, or whatever, it's NONE OF YOUR D@MN BUSINESS!!! And I'll tell you to your face it isn't! Just wish that I could have told the old bitty teachers that were always having a sh!t hemmorhage about it at school "NOYDB"...

People getting sideways about ME wearing MY hat indoors is MY PET PEEVE!!!!

Now cell phones in restaurants and especially the theatre, YEAH that SERIOUSLY TICKS ME OFF... Turn the d@mn thing off or STAY HOME! I'm glad to see that Cinemark is now playing a "turn your phone off, it can wait" PSA before the movie, and they end it with "DON'T be the one WE ASK TO LEAVE!" Good for them! If you can't take two hours or so away from teh phone to watch a movie, then WHY THE H3LL DID YOU GO TO THE MOVIES?? SERIOUSLY!!!

At least it's not as bad with the phones in restaurants as it used to be... I remember years ago when cell phones were something of a novelty... they were just becoming popular in purse size, down from the "lunchbox" size "carphones" that were the earliest cellular phones... and of course real estate people were the earliest adopters for obvious reasons... I was with my family in a nice Chinese restaurant and this STUPID WOMAN REALTOR was INCESSANTLY YAKKING on her stupid cell phone... you could just tell she was playing it up for all it was worth, too... she'd make a BIG PRODUCTION out of letting it ring, LOUD AS POSSIBLE, then LOUDLY answering it, and sit there chatting away very loudly for everyone in the restaurant to hear, as if anyone cared... the whole thing was just a "OH, LOOK at ME, LOOK how IMPORTANT I am..." episode... just about the stupidest most annoying thing I'd seen someone do... Realty women tend to be exhibitionists and have serious self-esteem problems and be drama queens anyway, but this was just PATHETIC...

Now that EVERYBODY'S got a cell phone, the novelty has worn off...

I take a very AMISH attitude toward the phone... If I'm at the theater or something, it goes OFF... if you need to get hold of me, it'll wait. At mealtime, the phone goes OFF. I don't care if the President was calling, I DO NOT answer the phone OR accept calls if anyone else does during mealtimes... PERIOD! It'll wait. I'll call you back. If you need something before then, you're just SOL... do it yourself or WAIT til mealtime is OVER. PERIOD!

One other thing I've started doing is, if you want to talk to me, you talk to the ANSWERING MACHINE FIRST... I DO NOT answer the phone, EVER... I let the answering machine catch it, and I listen in. IF i want to talk to you, I'll pick up the phone when you say "hey, this is *whomever*, are you there??" If I don't want to talk to you right then-- if it's mealtime or I'm otherwise busy, leave a message or pound sand, I don't really care which... I'll get back to you later when I get around to it or feel like it... If you're a telemarketer or these idiots trying to sell medical supplies or 'update their records', FORGET IT... the world will turn to dust before you ever hear from me... or before I'll ever talk to you... (as it SHOULD BE)... If you're legit, you'll hear back or I'll answer the phone. Oh, and I'm NOT paying the stupid phone company EXTRA every month for "caller ID"... if you WON'T ID YOURSELF to the answering machine, FINE... go pound sand because you'll NEVER talk to ME on a phone...

Later! OL JR

hats off in a building. basic manners.

Hmm... maybe let me think about it this way:

Golden rule: would I mind it if others wore hats indoors and/or when eating? Not the slightest.

What real basis does "hats off in a building" have other than tradition? "basic manners" doesn't cut it for me.

Gee-Luke- tell us how you REALLY feel!

(p.s.-it's taken me 30 years to break my wife's Pavlovian response to the phone. It a convienience, and if it's not convienient for me to answer it-oh well!)

I don't wear hats much, but llamas do.
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Visit this country and wear a hat while, say, visiting a church and you just look like an ass (that's a sort of donkey) and conform to prejudices about American tourists. It's just manners and respect.
Though I have taken to leaving my hat on in a pub if a hatstand is not provided. Look at old photographs and chaps all used to be wearing theirs in pubs.
A hat is a very useful object; replaces sunglasses and an umbrella. Of course one is always prepared for a passing funeral or a war memorial and, of course, you have something to take off in church.
Saves time when visiting a synagogue as well. No need to queue up for a koppel.

Hats OFF at the dinner table.
Hold the door for a lady.
Say thank you when the doors held for you.
WAVE! when someone lets you into traffic.
Say thank you period!
Say Please.
And for gods sake put your *^&*%%* Iphone down when being talked to, at the dinner table, while out with other people etc etc etc The Iphone list can go on forever.

Manners. Besides, whats the point of wearing a hat indoors other than you're too lazy to carry it in your hand? I believe it shows a certain, dying couth to remove it. Old school? Yes, it's getting that way, but so is the lack of manners. It's like wearing sunglasses indoors—what's the point? It doesn't bother me when people wear their hat in a building, they can do what they want. I was just raised different: Yes, sir, no sir. After you maam. Friends wear their hats in my house and it doesn't bother me, but I ask them to remove it at the table. I don't wear a hat indoors. It's not proper and there's no point. But hey, ain't nobody has to please me—though, I do wish more people would try.

There are situations where it just doesn't matter. Feed mills, parts departments, some work situations, coffee and pot bellied stoves—you get the idea.