Does your family talk during meals?

[Ryuu]

When my mom first moved out my dad used to talk a lot at the table not realizing that the only other person who actually talked back had left. Lotta awkward silences till he figured it out. Lol. Me and my brother just don't talk a lot generally.

[Hannah]

I had dinner at my brothers house last night, and it was more of the same. His kids hunched over their setting just like their dad and my mother, while his wife and I made conversation. I can't believe I share DNA with these people, it's amazing. As soon as the food was gone they zipped off to squat in front of the tv. It's sad what things have become.

I can't figure it out either. She and I are the only educated people in the family, and incidentally neither of us watch tv. It seems clear cut but my therapist has double masters, and as far as I can tell she enjoys the tube an aweful lot. So meh, I dunno.

[Constance]

There's just about always conversation at our meals. This was true in my family when I was a kid but not in my wife's family when she was growing up.

But, as Miniar points out, if the food is real good there's little conversation.

By the way, I'm the family cook. 

Dinner conversations these days can be events. There are very interesting senses of humor in my my family, including my ordained minister wife. Big nose jokes are favorites, and there are some Noses with a capital "N" in my family.

[Stella Blue]

We don't always have dinner together at the table but do at least a couple of times a week. When we do we also have conversation, sometimes about life, sometimes about random things. But whenever we eat together we talk. One time recently the discussion turned to why I wear female pants and my sister unknowingly helped me out by saying its the style for a lot of guys now lol. If she only knew...

-Heather

[insanitylives]

I wouldn't say talk, as much as yell.

[LordKAT]

Talk and food at the same time!?


and to think I was taught to not talk with food.

good thing I'm all there is, no one to talk to and no one to hear me.

[placeholdername]

My family generally does... but 30% of the time it devolves into an argument either between my dad and my sister or my dad and my mom.  But thats a better percentage than before... and I haven't eaten at home with them in over a year now so who knows.

[Jay]

Not really we do speak most of the time but not all of the time, mainly because we are to ingrossed in our food and watching the television.


I personally think that if I ever had kids I would want us to talk over dinner about there day!

Jay

[Genevieve Swann]

Unfortunately they do. All except my older brother are highly dysfunctional idiots and should keep their trap shut. Better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.