Ottawa: Appropriate Comportment through the Dating Life Cycle: For Relationships Both Casual and Complicated
The Dating Life Cycle is a veritable minefield of possible missteps and misunderstandings. The Ms Manners and Etiquette will take you gently by hand and illuminate the way to your assigned seat squarely in the glorious action section. And just in case things go awry whilst you are here, they will also show you how to make your exit with grace and dignity.
Ms Matilda Manners
Ms Manners has spent the bulk of her career studying at the International School of Extreme Politeness in Berne, Switzerland. In 2002, she was awarded her PhD of Mannerly Arts. Her doctoral thesis "The Tea Service as an Ongoing Paradigm of Modern Moral Disarray" is seen as one of the school's groundbreaking texts.
Ms Edwina Etiquette
For the past 20 years, Ms Etiquette has dedicated her life to helping those less mannerly than herself. After completing her studies at the Institute for Painstaking Politeness in Vienna, she has filled the position of Gentle Instructress at the Emily Post Memorial Halfway House for the Formerly Rude. She also volunteers as an "Excuse Me, But Please Would You Stop That" ambassador on the OC Transpo system.
Great fun! We looked fabulous, and the dozen or so people there laughed very hard on more than one occasion. There was some grumbling about the flow chart, which quite possibly was less self-explanatory than I gave it credit for. Still, grand times.
That flowchart, which I found totally intuitive, became the basis for lyrical exploration in the next workshop, I'll have the world know...I had the song's refrain "It's not you, it's me...I'm a heartless, unfeeling jackass" running through my mind for days.