Nina’s Top Ten Signs You Have No Home Training

Get out your pen and paper. It’s quiz time!

10) You’re invited to a dinner party. It’s the day of the party and you have no idea if children are invited. You call and call the host, but get a busy signal. Do you…

A – Call a sitter just in case and show up without your children.

B – Show up with your children and apologize if it seems to be a problem.

C – Show up with your children without apologizing. After all, if they didn’t want children in attendance they should have specified.

9) You have some kind of event at your home that requires gifts (baby shower, bridal shower, birthday/housewarming party, etc.) Do you…

A – Thank people in attendance as you open their gifts, and then mail personal thank you cards within one week of event.

B – Thank people in attendance as you open their gifts, and shoot a thank you e-mail to anyone that sent a gift, but didn’t attend.

C – Gratitude is for suckers.

8 ) You’re in the self check-out lane at your local market, ringing items up, when you realize you don’t want some of the items. Do you…

A – Finish ringing up your purchases, and then take each unwanted item back to it’s proper place within the store.

B – Inform the check-out attendant that you don’t want the items and give them to him/her.

C – Leave them on the conveyor belt for the next person to deal with.

7) You’re invited to a social gathering at someone’s home. You offer to bring something, but the host says it’s not necessary. Do you…

A – Show up with something (a bottle of wine, plate of cookies, flower bouquet) anyway.

B – Show up empty-handed, but offer to help clear the table/wash dishes after dinner.

C – Show up empty-handed.

6) Your neighbor is taking her kids to see the latest big-budget animation flick. She offers to take your kid as well. Do you…

A – Assume nothing and offer up money for your child’s ticket and possible concession stand wants.

B – Assume the ticket is paid for and send your child with money for anything they might want from the concession stand.

C – Just let your kid go with no offer to pay for anything.

5) You find a ten-dollar bill wrapped in a receipt in the parking lot of your kid’s school. Do you…

A – Turn it in to the office. Maybe the secretary can make an announcement.

B – Ask some people in the immediate area. If no one claims it, keep it.

C – Finders keepers, losers…  are out ten bucks!

4) You have your sister’s kid at the mall the week before Christmas. Santa is there taking pics and the line is really short. It’s the kid’s first Christmas. Do you…

A – Keep on walkin’.

B – Call your sister and ask if she’d mind you having the pictures taken.

C – Get in line without calling your sister, get the pictures taken, and hop in one of ‘em to boot!

3) You’re at a dinner party when you drop a messy hors d’ oeuvre on the floor. No one sees. Do you…

A – Pick it up, tell the host you did it, and offer to clean it up.

B – Tell the host that “someone” did it.

C – Say nothing, and kick it under the sofa careful not to get any on your shoe.

2) You’re leaving a store with your child and putting him/her into their car seat when you notice they have something from the store and you didn’t pay for it. You’re running late to your next appointment. Do you…

A – Go back in the store to pay for the item or return it with apologies.

B – Leave without going back into the store, but you return later with the item to either pay for it or apologize.

C – Leave.

1) You’re at your boyfriend’s parent’s house for the first time. Everyone is sitting around the living room chatting over coffee when you feel a major fart coming on. You could leave the room, but the movement might unleash the dragon. Do you…

A – Hold it in even though you risk blowing out your belly button.

B – Risk leaving the room. It’s rude to fart in front of others, but if it escapes while you’re trying to do the right thing, well… that’s not your fault, right?

C – You let it rip and then glare at the dog.

Tally up!

Give yourself 3pts for every A answer, 2pts for every B answer, and 1 pt. for every C answer.  Add up your points.

1-15 points – You’re like, one step above a felon. How do you look at yourself in the mirror. Wait. Is that even your mirror?

16-24 points – You suspect. I can be your friend, but you might not be welcome in my house.

25-30 points – Your mama raised you right! Who’s your mama? Martha Stewart?

If you have an idea for future Top Ten topic, send it to me at nina@blogitoutb.com. You may see it here one Wednesday. Also, if you have some bad behavior venting to get off your chest, head over to How Rude Are You and let loose!