The Life of Me

Alright, everybody. Listen up. This is getting out of hand. Does no one know how to set a freakin' table??? It shouldn't be this hard!!!

This really started being a problem for me when I went to this camp--Work of Christ Camp (it's a Christian camp) (And it's awesome)--from post-3rd-grade to post-6th-grade. Every meal, the counselors would pick 1 or 2 campers to be the stewards and go set the tables and all that good stuff. I'm pretty sure I was the ONLY person who actually did it right! Most of the other people would put ALL THE SILVERWARE on ONE SIDE!!! Oh, my GOSH, it bugged me!!!

So, here's how you set a table--this is just a plain old, boring table setting (no extra forks, no extra spoons, one extra knife, one extra glass)

-The plate goes in the center of the place setting. (I hope you already knew that...)

-The fork goes on the left. How do you remember that? F-O-R-K has 4 letters, L-E-F-T has 4 letters.

THE NAPKIN GOES UNDER THE FORK!!!

-The spoon and the (butter) knife go on the right. How do you remember that? S-P-O-O-N has 5 letters, K-N-I-F-E has 5 letters, R-I-G-H-T has 5   letters. 

THE SPOON PROTECTS THE KNIFE!!! (In other words, the knife is between the plate and the spoon)

-The steak knife goes horizontally above the plate.

-The wine glass goes above the spoon and knife (Same memory trick: G-L-A-S-S, and R-I-G-H-T)

-The water glass goes directly to the left of the wine glass. (No memory trick--just remember it.)

Okay, fine, here's a couple more things: Salad fork goes to the left of the regular fork. Soup spoon goes to the right of the other spoon. There.

-Sue Donimm