Categories: just-for-fun
Date: 11 September 2004 00:20:55
I'm not sure if this is a thing peculiar to Australia, or perhaps the English-speaking world, but real men don't use straws.
Everytime I have ordered a soft drink at a restaurant, no straw will be present in my glass. Any companions of the female variety who may be with me with always get a straw. I never noticed this until a German friend pointed it out -- apparently there is Straw Equality in Germany.
The most blatant example of this attitude occured, with the same German Frau who commented on it, at a restaurant where my Coca-Cola was delivered with straw. As soon as the waitress realised it was for me, with one fell swoop she removed the straw from the glass in front of me and returned to the kitchen with the straw. The Germans were quite fascinated by this.
We are an odd group, us people.