Re: Are you a stickler..
Reaching the teachers' workroom required walking through the lunchroom.
During lunch one day, I walked by my class of 5th graders and noticed that most of them were eating their ham slices with their fingers
. Quite in a hurry, I said hello, but asked them to please use their forks.
On my return, I noticed that my sweet angels had complied - but were then biting off unappetizing hunks from stabbed ham slices held aloft from their forks like floppy umbrellas.
We had an etiquette day soon after that.