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BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Inside a plain-enough country club restaurant nestled in this Champlain Valley college town, the latest crimes against the laws of social etiquette are being committed during the Monday lunch hour.
For at one table a 56-year-old man dressed in white golf shirt, zip-up fleece and rumpled khakis is hunched over a hot cup of beef barley soup, taking slurps with such alarming speed you wonder whether he should wear a seat belt.
This is not his only infraction. His elbows are resting right there on the table. And before food ever came, fork, spoon and knife were all crowded on one side of his plate, huddled over there like passengers on the port side of a starboard-listing ship.
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