An etiquette question

[Cubist]

I was in a meeting this morning, one of two males in a room of 15 women, discussing a particularly gripping topic. The woman to my left was wearing a ring with a very large stone in it, and a matching brooch. She had a habit of gesticulating as she spoke, and as a result the ring hand spent a considerable amount of time being waved more or less under my nose.

Out of the corner of my eye I noticed something was stuck in the claw of the ring, and when I looked closer I realised that it was a hair. From its length and shape I had to draw the inevitable conclusion that it was in fact, unmistakeably, a pubic hair. It wasn't quite the same colour as her head hair, and was undeniably crimped, where her head hair was straight.

So here's the etiquette question, along the lines of "do you tell someone they have cabbage stuck in their teeth". Should I have quietly and politley told her she had a pubic hair stuck in her jewellry? Should I have asked her simply to stop waving her hairy ring under my nose? Should I ignore the fact that the hair on her ring was clearly on display to everyone in the room? Or should I take the cowards way out and keep the fact that her ring was hairy to myself?

 

[Farky]

You must have looked in some detail no matter how much waving she was doing...interesting meeting then!!

I wouldn't have said anything myself as I'm not to sure she would have appreciated you telling her!

Funny story though.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

surely a gentleman wouldn't disclose to others his encounter with said lady's hairy ring…

 

[thomas]

Just go "ewww!" and run out of the room

 

[Cubist]

surely a gentleman wouldn't disclose to others his encounter with said lady's hairy ring…

Discreet, moi? I haven't named her have I?

 

[weevil]

That's some conundrum.

I heard of a chap with a similarly taxing dilemma. He was ascending a sinuous mountain path, only wide enough for one person, when he met a beautiful woman coming the other way. He couldn't decide whether to block her passage, or toss himself off?

 

[mr_hippo]

That's some conundrum.

I heard of a chap with a similarly taxing dilemma. He was ascending a sinuous mountain path, only wide enough for one person, when he met a beautiful woman coming the other way. He couldn't decide whether to block her passage, or toss himself off?

That's an old Max miller joke - c1950s

 

[swee'pea99]

"Is this Cockfosters?"

"The name's Miller, ma'am."

 

[TheDoctor]

waving her hairy ring under my nose?

Pfffft!!!!!!!!
*sniggers uncontrollably for a while*

No idea, but that's brilliant!!

 

[Globalti]

I had a similar experience one morning when I was talking to a female colleage just minutes after she had arrived at work. On her breath was the unmistakeable oystery odour of semen. Once you smell it you know what it is.

 

[Wigsie]

I had a similar experience one morning when I was talking to a female colleage just minutes after she had arrived at work. On her breath was the unmistakeable oystery odour of semen. Once you smell it you know what it is.

I just threw up a bit of sick in my mouth RR! thanks!

Cubist, as I know you work in an environment where fellow colleagues have orgies in pub toilets, I would probably have made a stupid (borderline) crack about her "ring being hairy" and your personal preference of a nice smooth ring on a lady!

Most other occupations/environments I would just laugh and stare at it untill she realised.

 

[chap]

I had a similar experience one morning when I was talking to a female colleage just minutes after she had arrived at work. On her breath was the unmistakeable oystery odour of semen. Once you smell it you know what it is.

That's disgusting, I don't know whether to feel sorry for you given the situation, or remain annoyed that next weeks dinner I've booked at a seafood restaurant is going to require some Dutch courage.

 

[longers]

I was going to find the other etiquette thread from a while back as I've got a very mundane non oyster related question.

I'm sure I remember my dad telling me it's bad form to cut your bread roll with a knife.

It'll never ever bother me whether I do or don't but am wondering why this might be thought of as not the done thing.

 

[Cubist]

I was going to find the other etiquette thread from a while back as I've got a very mundane non oyster related question.

I'm sure I remember my dad telling me it's bad form to cut your bread roll with a knife.

It'll never ever bother me whether I do or don't but am wondering why this might be thought of as not the done thing.

Good grief Longers old boy, you'll be asking why we don't spoon our soup up from this side of the bowl next. You just don't.

As a a matter of fact it has become a bit of a habit of mine to watch people in restaurants. You can tell the ones who have actually, actively been taught table manners from the way they eat their bread roll.

 

[Cubist]

Going back to the hair in the ring scenario, part of me has started to wonder whether it was her pubic hair or someone else's.