Interested to know your thoughts ……..

With not being able to get a dentist these days I guess she was taking the best care of her teeth she could 🤷‍♀️🤣

There were no ‘picks’ on the table so she had brought her own. I should imagine she never goes anywhere without one. I did consider speaking out the first day but didn’t want a potential scene in what was a big hotel dining room … with NO spare tables.

I would have just looked at her and said as we are cleaning teeth I will clean mine and take them out, dunk them in a glass of water and then put them back in. Saying it’s so easy this way. Wel. I might have said that after a bottle or two

No it is not acceptable behaviour I would have told her so there and then if it continued I would have asked to be moved. It reminds me of the 1970s in steak houses having pots of tooth picks on tables it wasn’t acceptable then and it is not now.

Yuk, you should have asked if you could have a change of table guests. You wouldn't do it in front of the family never mind strangers.

We used to sit in a local cafe for a coffee and a woman used to come in, get her coffee, then get out a small mirror and tweezers to remove tiny hairs from her chin. The product fell on the floor.

I side with the 'yuks!' on this one.

Maybe she,in a very odd way,thought she was being "Refained" and wanted everyone to know it!

Puts me in mind of Hyacinth Bucket (Boo-kay) of "Keeping Up Appearances" fame.

And it definitely ranks with eating with your mouth open.

Horrible... I would have had to move tables

Definitely Yuck !

It’s a ‘no’ from me. I don’t think many restaurants provide them now, but you definitely shouldn’t be using them at table.

Revolting. I would have asked to move tables

Yuk.

So wierd. Were they provided by the establishment or did she provide her own? I'd have said something to Management.

I don't think it's acceptable. If someone wants to do that, they should go to the toilet and do it. My late MIL used to sit and pick at her teeth, no matter where she was (she also use to break wind and belch, which I found sickening)

No no no

DH would approve!

No not acceptable. Those toothpickers may not have been happy with someone cleaning their fingernails ears or nose at the table. No self cleaning at the table please.

Yuk!

I suppose it must be 'acceptable' as some restaurants have them on the table but that doesn't make it any less revolting.

I’d be revolted but I have to say, I’ve been in what you might call upper class company where toothpicks were used freely at a meal.

It was pushing the tongue around the teeth to dislodge food that was considered extremely bad manners.