Dear Queenie,
When I was a kid my parents wouldn’t let me have any dessert until I had finished the rest of my meal. Now I like to eat my dessert first and then the rest of the food.
I never do this when I am a guest in someone else’s home, but I do it when I go out to eat with friends if it is at a restaurant that will let you order dessert along with all the other food. However, some of my friends think I am being rude.
Queenie, are they right?—Picky eater
Dear Picky eater,
If you know that your friends are being bothered by your eating habit, yes, you are being rude. But if it does not bother them, you have no problem.
