Comments on: How Passing the “Spoon” Brings Order to Conversation https://reluctantentertainer.com/how-passing-the-spoon-brings-order-to-conversation/ Recipes, Entertaining, Charcuterie, Boards, Travel and Lifestyle! Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:49:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kathleen https://reluctantentertainer.com/how-passing-the-spoon-brings-order-to-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-114881 Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:49:36 +0000 https://reluctantentertainer.com/?p=15721#comment-114881 No offense to the spoon thing, but I prefer a relaxed, stream-of-consciousness type of discussion. I had a hostess “pass the stick” at a reunion gathering, and I simply did not like the idea of abruptly, all of a sudden, ending a perfectly enjoyable dinner table conversation and start talking about myself. I was enjoying the free-form conversation as it was – natural in an organic way and way more informative that if I had listened to each gal pick something out of her life to talk about for two minutes. Call me crazy, but oh, well!

]]> By: FestivePartyGirl https://reluctantentertainer.com/how-passing-the-spoon-brings-order-to-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-44154 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:15:56 +0000 https://reluctantentertainer.com/?p=15721#comment-44154 Before my husband and I got married, our church required that we go through marriage classes. One of the lessons we learned was similar to passing the spoon but they gave each couple a square of linoleum floor. Whoever had the square “held the floor” and the other had to listen when they spoke. It was a good lesson that I think we sometimes forget about. Thanks for reminding me to pass the spoon (or the floor).

]]> By: Mary https://reluctantentertainer.com/how-passing-the-spoon-brings-order-to-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-43398 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:43:55 +0000 https://reluctantentertainer.com/?p=15721#comment-43398 Hi Sandy,

What a cute custom! I am definitely going to implement passing the spoon next time one of our dinner parties becomes a chorus of voices!

And thank you for sharing your wonderful thoughts about bringing all the young adults together. It was so sweet to read how they have all grown into such wonderful people. When I look at my own son who is now a teen, I am starting to see the traits of a fine young man developing. It’s hard to believe! It seems like they were just babies yesterday – doesn’t it?!?

Love,

Mary

]]> By: Melinda Stanton https://reluctantentertainer.com/how-passing-the-spoon-brings-order-to-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-43388 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:13:46 +0000 https://reluctantentertainer.com/?p=15721#comment-43388 I jokingly suggested we might need to do this and my daughters said somebody might get hurt with that spoon! We never realized how much we “chase rabbits” (interrupt each other, then come back and finish stories) until our oldest daughter married an only child who didn’t have to share the floor with anyone. Now we “hold our thoughts” in our hands, sometimes holding them for each other if somebody runs out of hands. It’s all a lot of loud, boisterous, split-your-side laughing fun when we all get together!

]]> By: Rick S https://reluctantentertainer.com/how-passing-the-spoon-brings-order-to-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-43382 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:48:34 +0000 https://reluctantentertainer.com/?p=15721#comment-43382 Your story reminds me that I shouldn’t hog a figurative spoon either and should listen and let others have their say without interuption. i will keep a spoon in the back of my mind.

thanks
rick

]]> By: ellen b https://reluctantentertainer.com/how-passing-the-spoon-brings-order-to-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-43381 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:48:26 +0000 https://reluctantentertainer.com/?p=15721#comment-43381 Love this idea. My side of the family could really benefit from the spoon for sure! :0)

]]> By: Heather @ new house, new home, new life https://reluctantentertainer.com/how-passing-the-spoon-brings-order-to-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-43380 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:34:13 +0000 https://reluctantentertainer.com/?p=15721#comment-43380 Sounds like you had a wonderful evening, Sandy. Love the passing the spoon idea and may use it at our next big gathering.

We are having a couple for dinner in a few weeks – old school friends of my husband (who I don’t know really well) and I’m hoping that we will need to pass the spoon as the conversation should be lively (politics, reminiscing and religion as she is an Episcopalian minister in training) Should be a fun night.

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