These are the same people who get mad if you put your elbows on the table or sit down to eat with a hat on. I wish my life was so simple that I had the energy to give things like that a second thought.
One of my dad's wives was a Brit and I learned about the headwear thing from her. I never encountered it before. She pulled a face when I come to the dinner table wearing a baseball cap. She didn't even make a sentence. She just said "Your cap..." and she got even more annoyed I didn't understand what she meant. I took it off because I didn't want to get in an argument. I just wanted to eat.
I never thought of her as my step-mother. I always thought of her as my dad's wife.
I never thought about it until that day. Years after that dinner I watched a Sopranos episode and it made me laugh because Tony was the scary gangster version of my dad's wife.
I’ve been yelled at for leaning forward to drink from a straw instead of picking the cup up and bringing it to my mouth. Like how about you take your hand and shove it up your ass