20-40-60…We got mail!
Callie, Lillie-Beth and I have received five e-mail letters about 20-40-60. Here they are, unsigned, with links to the particular columns.
1. “20-40-60. Your answers are outstanding! All of them are great! I forwarded it to my husband and we decided we have a new plan of attack. We need to set boundaries – politely. I guess we were maybe too intimidated to do that, but I think you all are right. Better late than never! And I love the suggestion to put them to work!
“Thanks for answering my question!”
20-40-60 column posted on Parties Extra! blog on Jan. 21, 2010 
2. “Hello – 20-40-60 Etiquette Gurus
“Here is a little point of interest that has endured time in the hospital setting (I was instructed when I began working at OUHSC. ) Doctors are always addressed by their colleagues, assistants and patients as “Doctor”. When addressing the boss in front of a client or patient it would be very impertinent to call him/herby their first name.
“It would might imply to others that the two individuals were on a more personal basis and not all business. You do not speak to doctors in the halls unless they speak to you first. ( that old ‘don’t speak until called upon’).
“These seemingly old fashioned rules are in fact ( as told to me ) important to maintain the serious nature of hospital business.”
20-40-60 column posted on Parties Extra! on Jan. 13, 2010
“I was in your journalism class at Northeast in 1966. The Norseman Scroll was fun to produce, and you were a great instructor. I was a sophomore that year.
“So, here we are some 44 years later. Being 59-and-a-half right now, I’ve been considering myself 60ish. They say 60 is the new 40, you know.
“My etiquette predicament? Should I nudge the former teacher and suggest she might be more 70ish? Am I way off base? Just wondering.”
(Helen’s answer from the 60 of 20-40-60…..this is my decade birthday year and maybe I can be 60-plus forever. Works for me.)
4. “Helen. Although I was not in a sorority at the University of Arkansas, my years there were during the waning years of “Gracious Living.”
“During my freshman year in Fulbright Hall and sophomore and junior years at Carnall Hall (much like a sorority due to its physical stature and number of residents – about 75), we were given rules – including the one about salt, cutting hamburgers, no eating of ice, etc.
“We had sitdown meals at Fulbright, Monday-Thursday evenings and sitdown meals for Sunday lunch at Carnall (I don’t think we had them during the week).
“My senior year was at a coed dorm — or what passed for coed in 1967 (girls in one building, guys in another, with a cafeteria in between)….a long way from “Gracious Living.” I am now amazed at the unquestioning manner in which we accepted those rules – and the guys in their dorms had none! I was part of the last group of U of A girls that would receive a call-down if the salt wasn’t passed correctly.
“I recently came across a printed list of those rules from my 2 years in Carnall. Today’s college girls would think they’re fiction.”
20-40-60 column posted on Parties Extra! blog on Feb.3, 2010
5. “Lillie-Beth, I enjoyed yesterday’s 20/40/60 column regarding salt and pepper etiquette.
In my Job Search Toolkit workshops, I relate a story about a hiring manager who conducted second job interviews during breakfast or lunch meetings.
He observed candidates decisions to salt their meal before tasting it. How could candidates know if salt was needed before tasting? Would these candidates make business decisions before gathering all the facts? Did the hiring manager eliminate a candidate on seasoning food before tasting, I don’t know.
However, many details factor into a hiring decision. Again, I love the 20/40/60 column.”
20-40-60 column posted on Parties Extra! blog on Feb.3, 2010:)
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