Nowhere other than with the airline industry do so many people so willingly pay so much money to be treated with so much disrespect. God willing, I’ll never fly again.
It wasn’t so much a matter of “eating everything” as it was of “sitting around the table for hours on end accomplishing nothing.” I can (and do!) pack away “everything” in five minutes if nobody’s watching to critique my manners.
My mother used to make it her life’s mission to keep me in clothes that were less comfortable than sleeping on the couch. I made it very clear to my wife at the outset that she wasn’t going to be my mother.
Well if Loretta didn’t insist on having company that wouldn’t be an issue, now would it?