I read a blog post this morning that brought to mind an amusing story...
My in-laws were in town last week, visiting for Easter. During their visit, they took us to Applebee's for dinner. As is customary at virtually any restaurant, the waitress brought us our drinks while we looked at our menus. My father-in-law had a lemon with his beverage, and was squeezing the juice from the lemon into his liquid refreshment, when the lemon slice suddenly flew out of his hand, up and over his head, and off it went to the table behind him.
It couldn't have been better if he'd thrown the thing... it hit a little girl at the table smack-dab in the head. There was a dramatic silence in the air as the realization of what had just happened sunk into everyone at both tables. The kid's dad, seeing the lemon fly out of nowhere, exclaimed "What the...!?"
... everyone at our table busted out laughing, including my father-in-law, who sheepishly turned around to apologize to the people at the next table. Once they realized what had happened, they joined in our laughter.
Now, with the post I read earlier in mind, I wonder... what's the proper thing, etiquette-wise, to do in such a situation?
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