Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
Church, or a sit-down restaurant, or any other place where one would expect to be clean and well-groomed and 'proper', one would of course want to remove his hat. But to state that all indoor places without exception (MoR even underlined it to drive home the point!) must be places where a hat is removed, just doesn't jibe with real life.
And on that note, many sit-down restaurants (at least out here) don't offer a place to put ones broad brimmed cowboy hats anymore. Sometimes one can place it in an empty chair at your table. However I have more than once seen a group of buckaroos (as we call them out here), with no place to place their hats, leave them on while dining (I myself have faced this same dilemma).

Yet, in any other circumstance they conduct themselves as "gentleman". Does this one act exclude them otherwise?

I'd be the last to tell them so