Skip to content
  • Register
    • We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

    A Question of Etiquette

    Posts: 200 Member
    edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
    Here is a situation that I found myself in. I realize now that there are many ways I could have dealt with it. I know that I could have done better.

    Just for a bit of fun, how would you guys would deal with it?

    So, here’s the situation…

    You’re at a nice lunch… not exactly formal but it’s certainly important that you impress the other guests.

    You take a sip of your drink and suck up a nice fruity bit through your straw. You immediately realize that there should be no fruit in your drink because it is a diet soda. You explore the thing with your tongue and you find that it is a soggy and very dead house fly.

    You react with a sound and everyone looks at you. The woman next to you asks “are you okay?”

    What do you do?

    Welcome!

    It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.
    Sign In
    Register
    «13

    Replies

    • Posts: 767 Member
      :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

      I am sooooo sorry, shouldn't have laughed! :laugh:

      Gonna have to think about this one as its tricky. A few different options.
    • Posts: 767 Member
      Think I'd have to Nod in acknowledgement of the person asking if I'm ok (I couldn't speak with a bug in my mouth!) eww, whilst desperately making a grab for the nearest knapkin. Discreetly, I'd spit the bug out and dispose off the napkin onto an empty/used plate. Failing the after lunch empty plate, I'd just drop the knapkin into my handbag and dispose later.
    • Posts: 560 Member
      Oh. My. Goodness.

      I would have as quickly as possible spit it into my napkin, let the person making an inquiry know I was alright and then excuse myself from the table.
    • Posts: 5,922 Member
      Is there anyone opposite you that you dislike? Do you have the skills to aim and either achieve:

      a. Headshot
      b. Fly landing in THEIR drink?

      There is a third option;

      c. Log 1g Pure Protein.
    • Posts: 537 Member
      Nasty!

      But here are my choices

      1) If it's formal spit it out slowly and get the server
      2) If it's in your situation, you could simply overreact
    • Posts: 3,628 Member
      Ewwwwwww !

      I pray that NEVER happens to me :sad:
    • Posts: 619
      Oh. My. Goodness.

      I would have as quickly as possible spit it into my napkin, let the person making an inquiry know I was alright and then excuse myself from the table.
    • Posts: 139
      Is there anyone opposite you that you dislike? Do you have the skills to aim and either achieve:

      a. Headshot
      b. Fly landing in THEIR drink?

      There is a third option;

      c. Log 1g Pure Protein.

      I vote letter c XD
    • Posts: 143 Member
      I would have spit it into a napkin then called over a server to get a manager and complained. Especially since if a housefly was able to get into your drink must have meant it was sitting out for a while.
    • Posts: 1,194 Member
      I'd probably start singing..."There was an old lady who swallowed a fly..."

      I remember a time when I was at a xmas party at lawn bowls in the summer time (where the flies love the heat down in Oz) and I was laughing and ended up choking on a fly. Friends look at me weirdly asking "You ok?"....I say "Swallowed a fly"...

      ...they fell about laughing their heads off. I had tears down my face from laughing too.
    • Posts: 11,788 Member
      I would have called the waitress over, pointed it out, and asked for a fresh drink.

      Proper Etiquitte doesn't require that you eat a dead fly.
    • Posts: 2,518 Member
      Yuck.

      Unfortunately, I am pretty sure I would have puked right there.
    • Posts: 1,261 Member
      I would have called the waitress over, pointed it out, and asked for a fresh drink.

      Proper Etiquitte doesn't require that you eat a dead fly.

      this.
    • Posts: 507 Member
      If you cycle anywhere in the UK, eating flies, bug insect or other flying object becomes second nature.
      A fly in a drink is nothing worth worrying about, half a caterpillar in the salad now that would worry me :laugh:
    • Posts: 309 Member
      English or not, I would have complained. You don't have to make a big deal of it. I'm pretty sure most people have had a bit of unexpected livestock in their food or drink at some time!

      The only time I got upset with a restaurant was when I had a salad and found a large catapillar in it, part consumed (presumably by me) and when pointing it out to the waitress, she replied with something along the lines of "what do you expect, it's a salad, it's gonna happen"
    • Posts: 2,796 Member
      I would have called the waitress over, pointed it out, and asked for a fresh drink.

      Proper Etiquitte doesn't require that you eat a dead fly.


      agree!!
    • Posts: 4,500 Member
      Welllllll, if it was me I would have:

      a) discreetly taken the offending fly out of my mouth whilst covering it with a napkin
      b) called over the prettiest waitress I could see
      c) show her the malodorous insect and say
      d) "I'm afraid I will have to return your generous gift because it's rather unsafe to drink and fly"
      e) watch as she giggles
      f) get her number
      g) meet her for a drink after her shift finished
      h) end the evening doing the horizontal hoolah

      (authors note: this is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead or previous events is purely coincidental.)
    • Posts: 2,284 Member
      There is no such thing as poor etiquette when ingesting a possible poop fly. do you know what those things land on with no discretion for human life.....yuck
    • Posts: 517 Member
      chew the fly and be grateful for the extra protein ;o)
    • Posts: 309 Member
      Welllllll, if it was me I would have:

      a) discreetly taken the offending fly out of my mouth whilst covering it with a napkin
      b) called over the prettiest waitress I could see
      c) show her the malodorous insect and say
      d) "I'm afraid I will have to return your generous gift because it's rather unsafe to drink and fly"
      e) watch as she giggles
      f) get her number
      g) meet her for a drink after her shift finished
      h) end the evening doing the horizontal hoolah

      (authors note: this is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead or previous events is purely coincidental.)

      Excellent - you sir are a inspirational leader, if only everyone thought like this .....................................I'd be divorced because my wife would want to know why the hell I was hitting on a waitress whilst out for dinner!
    • Posts: 369 Member
      Smile and ask her if you have something in your teeth?!
    • Posts: 3,924 Member
      I would pop out my smartphone and track the calories.

      How many grams of protein in a fly?
    • Posts: 2,016 Member
      I would have called the waitress over, pointed it out, and asked for a fresh drink.

      Proper Etiquitte doesn't require that you eat a dead fly.

      Exactly, having discreetly removed the fly from my mouth to my napkin, I'd be calling the waitress/waiter over and making them aware of the problem calmly and without making a fuss. Or excused myself from the table and asked for the manager out of the hearing of my table mates if it was very formal.
    • Posts: 119 Member
      I would have called the waitress over, pointed it out, and asked for a fresh drink.

      Proper Etiquitte doesn't require that you eat a dead fly.
      THIS!!!!!!
    • Posts: 759 Member
      Run, screaming out the door, leaving the remaining guests to fend for themselves.
    • Posts: 342 Member
      mmmmm protein :bigsmile:
    • Posts: 403 Member
      I want to know what you did :laugh:
    • Posts: 236 Member
      Welllllll, if it was me I would have:

      a) discreetly taken the offending fly out of my mouth whilst covering it with a napkin
      b) called over the prettiest waitress I could see
      c) show her the malodorous insect and say
      d) "I'm afraid I will have to return your generous gift because it's rather unsafe to drink and fly"
      e) watch as she giggles
      f) get her number
      g) meet her for a drink after her shift finished
      h) end the evening doing the horizontal hoolah

      (authors note: this is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead or previous events is purely coincidental.)

      Actually sitting laughing at work, haha!!
    • Posts: 89 Member
      Gross me out the door!! I think I'd be getting a free meal at least, I wouldn't freak out but I would let management know for sure.
    • Posts: 964 Member
      I'd have made a huge hilarious deal out of that situation - give everyone something to remember and maybe turn some acquaintances into friends
    This discussion has been closed.

    Welcome!

    It looks like you're new here. Sign in or register to get started.
    Sign In
    Register

    Quick Links

    Categories