Animation: sweet rolls or some other food to feast on / juice

It’s dinnertime! So everyone scrambles to the table to get the best seat, claim the biggest pork chop, peek at the choicest rolls… It’s the story of almost every large family, buffet, or large gathering.

Who gets the last piece of cake? How does it work out in your family? Is it first-come, first serve. Or does it go to the eldest? Or the littlest? The saddest—the one who can beg the best? The quickest? The one with the best or most convincing story, as in the movie, “Notting Hill”? What are your “table politics?”

Not what do you discuss around the table. But what are your politics “of” the table? Who sits where, who gets what first or last, who presides, who is at the head, and who is always the least? We all have them in ou…