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Alison Cheperdak

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Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

And the way you hold a tea cup and the way you hold a coffee cup are different, mostly because coffee cups are heavier, so they involve like just more weight. If it was a coffee cup, I would hold it like this. And then if it was a teacup, I would pinch my pointer finger and my thumb together and I would support it like this. Okay.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

And the way you hold a tea cup and the way you hold a coffee cup are different, mostly because coffee cups are heavier, so they involve like just more weight. If it was a coffee cup, I would hold it like this. And then if it was a teacup, I would pinch my pointer finger and my thumb together and I would support it like this. Okay.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

And the way you hold a tea cup and the way you hold a coffee cup are different, mostly because coffee cups are heavier, so they involve like just more weight. If it was a coffee cup, I would hold it like this. And then if it was a teacup, I would pinch my pointer finger and my thumb together and I would support it like this. Okay.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

Can I try? It's very specific and honestly a lot of teacups are heavier these days. No, this is wrong. You're close. You would just extend. So pinch your pointer finger and your thumb and then extend your third finger to support it there. Exactly. Yeah. It's just a little more ladylike. It's a little more ladylike and it works if you are really having like a proper afternoon tea on a high.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

Can I try? It's very specific and honestly a lot of teacups are heavier these days. No, this is wrong. You're close. You would just extend. So pinch your pointer finger and your thumb and then extend your third finger to support it there. Exactly. Yeah. It's just a little more ladylike. It's a little more ladylike and it works if you are really having like a proper afternoon tea on a high.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

Can I try? It's very specific and honestly a lot of teacups are heavier these days. No, this is wrong. You're close. You would just extend. So pinch your pointer finger and your thumb and then extend your third finger to support it there. Exactly. Yeah. It's just a little more ladylike. It's a little more ladylike and it works if you are really having like a proper afternoon tea on a high.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

So it's not as heavy as coffee.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

So it's not as heavy as coffee.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

So it's not as heavy as coffee.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

And then when it comes to stirring coffee or tea, we don't swirl like this. You go back and forth, back and forth, like 12, 6, 12, 6. Oh, okay. Great. And then just as a general matter, you don't clink like that because you want to protect the glass and you just kind of shake it to the side like this.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

And then when it comes to stirring coffee or tea, we don't swirl like this. You go back and forth, back and forth, like 12, 6, 12, 6. Oh, okay. Great. And then just as a general matter, you don't clink like that because you want to protect the glass and you just kind of shake it to the side like this.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

And then when it comes to stirring coffee or tea, we don't swirl like this. You go back and forth, back and forth, like 12, 6, 12, 6. Oh, okay. Great. And then just as a general matter, you don't clink like that because you want to protect the glass and you just kind of shake it to the side like this.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

The same would go, and a lot of people do this, when you're ever doing a cheers, you don't actually clink the glasses.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

The same would go, and a lot of people do this, when you're ever doing a cheers, you don't actually clink the glasses.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

The same would go, and a lot of people do this, when you're ever doing a cheers, you don't actually clink the glasses.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

But you make eye contact. You make eye contact. And then another thing that people often don't know is that if anyone is ever doing a cheers in your honor, you actually don't take a sip. So you should just smile and say thank you. to take a sip when someone is giving a toast and your honor is sort of like giving yourself a round of applause or singing happy birthday to yourself. Even at a wedding?

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

But you make eye contact. You make eye contact. And then another thing that people often don't know is that if anyone is ever doing a cheers in your honor, you actually don't take a sip. So you should just smile and say thank you. to take a sip when someone is giving a toast and your honor is sort of like giving yourself a round of applause or singing happy birthday to yourself. Even at a wedding?

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

But you make eye contact. You make eye contact. And then another thing that people often don't know is that if anyone is ever doing a cheers in your honor, you actually don't take a sip. So you should just smile and say thank you. to take a sip when someone is giving a toast and your honor is sort of like giving yourself a round of applause or singing happy birthday to yourself. Even at a wedding?

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

Even at a wedding. Wow. That's great to know. So like the two big things that happen at weddings all the time are the clinking of glasses to get everyone's attention. Oh yeah.

Excuse My Grandma
Excuse My Grandma's Guide to Etiquette

Even at a wedding. Wow. That's great to know. So like the two big things that happen at weddings all the time are the clinking of glasses to get everyone's attention. Oh yeah.