Thinking, still, of the the English and why they sometimes make my flesh crawl:

Napkin Rings: A whole majority class of people who could see nothing whatever amiss in using the same napkin at table for two days running.

Of course, to be fair, one knows that restaurants in Paris in the 19th century used to offer their preferred customers their own hook by the door to hang their napkins from--I read about it in Simenon. And we have Lord Russell's personal memoir of what a pooey mess the world was before the automobile.