Whenever you watch soap
operas, the rich families walk into their candlelit house with no windows and
dark wooded furniture and pour themselves a drink from a fancy decanter filled
with brown liquid. If not alcohol, they mosey on over to the fine silver and
pour a delectable cup of coffee into a china cup.
It’s pretty funny to
me. Perhaps I’m just hanging around the wrong group of people, but I don’t know
a single soul who keeps their scotch in a decanter or the coffee in a fine
silver coffee holder on a silver tray. They may have those things in a curio
cabinet, but they’re purely for decorative purposes.
With the exception of
church events that I do remember seeing fine silver being used at their
appearance is rare. It was usually at Mother/Daughter teas when I was a kid.
They really liked to make those fancy and I always got to bring home a bag of
mints and a flower.
