JAPAN - PSYCHOLOGY

She, the same suave movement, the same stacking, emptying and the same old habit of tossing food into the sauce plate, then popping it into her mouth with chin tucked low as she worked through the table. My partner stared in disbelief and was making me truly uncomfortable with his direct and confrontational behavior, staring at that girl. I kicked his leg under our table, a signal to him to be discreet to avoid any humiliation. He was amused, disgusted and truly shocked. So was I, but the incident has more a melodramatic effect on me than feeling disgusted. I wondered what went through her mind.

"She's hungry or poor perhaps," he said.

"No, can't be, it goes beyond that surface of hunger," I analyzed.

Come on, having waited on tables, working as a waitress as summer jobs myself, I doubt that she is hungry. It's more like a habitual practice that she does it, and with forms of well articulated silence skills that goes unnoticed to anyone in a busy dining place. I can't help but to deduce that it's an ugly habit of hers. Wish that someone would know and tell her about her habit of chewing down other person's left over. It is just not right socially or outside of the comfort of home dining, let alone in the name of hygiene.