seating etiquette

the other day, rip and i were having dinner with a teammate of mine named lee. rip is not on this team, tho he has met a lot of them since he went with me to my team's year-end dinner. lee sat down first. rip was getting a drink, so i was to sit down next. and wouldn't you know it. i had no idea where to sit! we weren't in a booth; it was a long table with individual chairs. lee sat at the end, across from the side rip and i were to sit. so do i sit across from lee or have rip sit across from lee?

i ended up sitting across from lee. because i figure lee is my teammate, not rip's, so it would make more sense for me to sit across from him, rather than rip. but i wondered, because, well, i dunno. he's a guy, so i felt like i shouldn't sit across from him. lol, i have no idea. if it were just me and lee we would obviously sit across each other. if we were with the team i'd have rip sit across from lee so i'd be next to a teammate, because rip isn't on the team. but in this situation i, for some reason, thought it awkward to sit across from lee when i was with rip? ...i know, it sounds as if i'm cheating on rip with lee so i'm hella paranoid to "just act normal."

lol, anyway, i think i did fine. i think it was all *very normal*. hahahah. but seriously. have you ever randomly freaked out a little over seating? it's strange. like, i don't want to accidentally offend rip somehow by sitting across from some dude. tho if rip were to get offended by this, our relationship has some crazy problems. but, lol, turns out it's just me with the crazy problems.