"I never know what to do with my hands!"

In your lap in America. When abroad, keep them where others can see them.

"What about salt and pepper?"

Never, never, divorce the salt and pepper. Pass them together at all times.

With the soup course, Smith covered the etiquette of sneezing, yawning and belching, small talk and the secret language of silverware with the main course, and as the group finished their chicken and put down their knives and forks (parallel between twelve and four o 'clock), the focus turned to the nitty gritty details of the business dinner.

And however simple and arbitrary the rules seemed to be, the attendees said they were glad to know them.

As one of last evening's attendees reflected on his way out of the seminar, "It's a lot of stuff I needed to know and would never have learned otherwise."

The event's sponsors said they organized the workshop to address some of the faults they have encountered in undergraduate comportment.