QF napkins have the same hole. Wonder why they would do it if it WASN'T to be used on your shirt....

Maybe it is how they hang them up in the galley. Or something in the washing process.

Count me in for the secret napkin club! I've always been doing it, and it has saved at least a couple of shirts so far.

And the etiquette? Eating the reconstituted slop that passes for F meal with plastic flatware off a TV tray built in to a chair you're tethered to with a belt pretty much takes care of any possible etiquette compliance issues right there! We bear a closer resemblance to my 18 month old in a high chair than to an epicurean at Le Cirque. Sorry!

:p ;)

Oh, and my advAAnced technique is to use the third button from the top. This places the napkin in a position where it can catch both the shirt-bound as well as pant-bound ejecta.

I'm glad we're finally getting into meatier subjects (no pun intended). :cool:

Sami

I definitely do it every time as well. Especially on the blue Recaro seats which have all that built-in recline.

Steve

:D

this is why we cant fly in jeans and a t-shirt you MUST have a button down shirt on in F

I never wear a button-down shirt. So I often have to take my cell phone and use it to clip the napkin to my T-shirt collar.

you can always ware a front closing bra and snap it to that :cool:

Count me in. A consistent button'er. I seldom have seen anyone else take use the button option.

I'm very careful and ~95% of the time, I also button the napkin on. Like others, in my field of view, I'm generally the only person doing this. There have been times when I've seen others do it to, but it is rare.

I would do it, but I normally don't wear a buttoned up shirt when I travel. Comfort is key!

Lucky you! I am almost always flying on business and these days you get into a meeting almost as soon as you get off. Not even time to go to the hotel. Gone are the days when I was sent on a business trip overseas with a buffer day built in.

I button the napkin whenever I'm wearing a buttondown shirt. I rarely see anybody else do it, but the practice has saved me from walking into business meetings with grease or sauce down my front.

I've done those before, and even then I'd wear more relaxed clothes onboard and just put on the shirt at the airport. Wrinkle-resistent fabrics are great that way, and you don't risk ANY stains whatsoever.

Plato90,

Yeah. Good Point.

I miss those buffer days. In the mid 90s when I used to travel to LGW from DFW. I used to take the last AA flight out of DFW and land in LGW at around 10 AM. Would take the Gatwick Express to town and then take a cab to my hotel. Check in around 12:30 PM. Go workout. Take a nice shower. Then have a late lunch. Then go and have a nice walk at Oxford St. Then meet the client for drinks/dinner at night and have the first full business day the next morning.

Now I take the first AA flight out. Reach there at 7 AM in the morning. Depending on how I have been booked, I either immediately leave for London to get to a meeting by 9 AM or have an extra 30 mins to take a shower. In either case I have a full business day that does not finish till 11 PM. The first time I see my hotel is at near midnight that day. The next morning I am back at the clients office by 9.

Aah the good ole' wasteful dot com funded days.....Miss them