The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for June 19, 2012

Food on their mouths……………..Burl picking his teeth with a toothpick at the dinner table………..typicalGood Morning

Actually I’m surprised one of them isn’t blowing their nose……………they are so crass!!

Burl! I still see crumbs on your plate, what’s wrong with you, no appetite?Good morning, Leaky.

Burl, they know someone, so they got seated at the big tough…table 2.

Table 5 is so far down the list they don’t even get bibs.And they’re the one’s that need them.

Could it be that the people at that other table had more to say than “Gobble gobble gobble?”

The Pennys probably don’t even know how to take part in dinnertable conversation….they’ve never been told you’re allowed to take breaks from chewing and swallowing before the food is gone.

Morning, all!

“It’s not faaaiiirr…”Can’t you just hear Verl’s plaintive but screechy little whine?It’s well-practiced….Probably spent her first 14 or 15 years running to Ma with it, whenever big sister Joy got away with something.And since Joy’s always been a conniving schemer, opportunities were rife.

Hi X — did you see that I DID answer you on BS?

Marg! That can’t be you. I have it on reliable authority that you left town!Hope you’re having fun!

Leaky…. it would take less “ink” to note the times when this bunch is NOT crass!

X — no hurry…. be sure you leave room for some of that cake.

Joy, Burl et al will be worried that it’s not big enough, so they’ll take TWO pieces each…..You know, to make sure they get seconds before it’s all gone.

Watching the Pennys eat must resemble that wonderful scene in “Fargo” where one perp is putting the other through a wood chipper. I think I’ve seen somethng like in on NatGeo Wild.

With that thought in mind (and I wish it weren’t) I’ll say good night.You know mikie2 sometimes you can really turn a party around.

And just maybe, they’re not human vacuum cleaners and take the time to chew and taste their food, Burl.

it sometimes seems to me that Jerry is looking slyly at the reader.

Yes, the other table is still eating. The chatted, they savored the food, they didn’t just shovel it in.

And as pointed out, they can make up for less food (in their minds) by scarfing down cake. Maybe even make a few visits to the cake line.

I wonder if the gift from the Pennys will be the stapler that Burl took home from work. Maybe something from the dollar store, or something they were going to throw away. Whatever it is, you can bet Joy asked them to just put her name on it too.

I am thinking the couple of honor only invited them because they knew their grandparents or someone and they felt they should or it would seem rude. Not that the Pennys understand rude.

With Burl wearing half of his dinner, I hope he doesn’t insist on dancing with the woman of honor.

Good Morning Crustwood!

Serving size is normally the same for each guest…. so the PENNYs either got served earlier or ate faster…… Further evidence suggets they ate faster…. a lot faster…..Next they will be complaining about how long it takes to serve the cake…. ! ! !

you can see thet ate faste look at women faces look they ate like pig do no hands

Shovel it in ‘til there ain’t no mo’.

I say they all eat so fast they can’t even taste the food. And why bother talking to each other during a meal. scarf – scarf.

Find it?

Morning all!! Crustwood has another party where the Penny’s and friends show what pigs they are…all need bibs

i’ve actually been to buffet style dinners, and watched people that came in after us get up to make their next run(s), and actually leave a “food” circle bare on the table, food all over themselves, the seats, etc.

Hard to conceive (as if we wanted to) if even Jerry finds behavior questionable. My fledgling red tail hawks are better at sharing food and eating neatly (with only beak and talons) than these folk.