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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tons of UMC don't care about the butter.  I feel like you people don't know what UMC means.[/quote]

UMC means in the top 33% and well educated.[/quote]

Yes, and that includes lots of people who don't care about the butter.[/quote]

It's not about the butter itself, it's about being put into situations that are unfamiliar to you and worrying about whether you're about to make a fool out of yourself with some faux pas that those around you might regard as low class. I'm the person who posted about having to figure out the butter thing during client lunches in their first professional job. It wasn't just the butter, the butter was one of many things where I saw people doing it differently from how we'd done them when I was growing up, and not knowing if it was personal preference on the other person's part or an etiquette rule that I wasn't aware of (and then trying to figure out the rule on the fly). Seeing someone post a comment that suggested what I thought I'd figured out as the correct way of handling the butter might have been wrong threw me a bit because that was one I really thought I'd figured out and had stopped worrying about. The old insecurity runs deep.[/quote]

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