Your high-culture fantasy may come off as intimidating or boring.
Miss Manners doubts that this will be in time for your convalescence, when you will do better simply by telling well-wishers that you would love some company, and that all afternoons are possible.
When you and social conditions have recovered, you might try. But don’t call it a salon until it has been successful for some time, and you can do so laughingly. To do so at the start will frighten people who doubt their ability to maintain a high level of clever conversation, as well as people who want to avoid being subjected to those who think they can.
Rather, call it an open house, and invite those who attend the first such to return the following week. If they do, you can suggest that they next bring along friends who might enjoy this sort of gathering. If a core group begins attending every week, you can, after a full season, think of yourself as Madame de Stael — as long as you don’t say that aloud.
Is this something new? This has happened at several lunches, and I don’t know the proper way to handle it. Should we excuse ourselves while the conversation is happening, and hope it is over when we return?If you are impatient, the waitress probably is, too. While she wants to appear agreeable, and may be genuinely friendly, she has work to do. So saying “Why don’t we order now?” would even be a help.
As for its being new, there has been an increase, in recent years, of people grilling the waitstaff about ingredients. Perhaps, also, the strain on service people may have awakened a desire to appear sympathetic.
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