No snowshovels at the table

We gave Quinn a little snowshovel for his birthday (among other things). He was quite taken with it. He carried it around for quite awhile leading up to dinner time. At dinner time, over his loud protests, his mommy enforced the no-snowshovels-at-the-dinner-table rule. I noted that while this was probably implicitly a rule of most mommies, not all mommies have to enforce said rule.