Chopsticks??

We went to the China Palace for dinner tonight. Apparently my darling husband never learned how to hold a pencil correctly. This little informational nugget will be important later. He had just finished bragging to me about how he can eat so well with chopsticks, when one of the waitresses came over and gave him a lesson. He wasn't using them right! She wouldn't let it go either. She must have stood over our table for a good 5 minutes trying to show/tell him how to use the dang things. Since he can't hold a pen/pencil I guess he can't hold chopsticks. Chloe was so freaked out that this lady was standing over her and using her food as a demonstration. She wouldn't move a muscle. Literally, she was holding her watermelon in her hand and just staring at me, as if to say "mommy, make this lady go away". What made it even funnier was that the lady spoke NO English. Trevor was good about it though. He tried doing what she said. Finally she left us alone to eat in peace. I don't get what the big deal was in the first place because he was succeeding at getting the food to his mouth. And I didn't see what the difference was in what she showed him to what he was already doing. It was pretty funny.

As for how to hold a pen or pencil. What difference does that make? They try to teach us the correct way in grade school, but if you can write- who cares how the letters get on the page? Remember those gummy things they used to have us put on pencils so we'd hold them correctly? Apparently they never worked for Trevor and his teachers got really upset about it. I'm sorry- holding a pencil incorrectly doesn't look like it's harmed him academically. I'd say a 3.6 in Mechanical Engineering from a top engineering school isn't too shabby. Nor is currently being enrolled at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Center where he's learning to control billion-dollar equipment!! I think his teachers would eat their words, or pencils for that matter, if they could see him now!