LG, that's your idea of things. You are picking and choosing what the imaging is about too. In American Catholicism, we do both on the tongue and in the hand. To me, communion in hand is closer to an imaging of the Last Supper. I don't need to lounge chair set up for me. Don't be ridiculous. 


I'm speaking within American Catholicism and, in my parish, people mostly take communion in hand. A few do on the tongue, and fewer find a way onto the floor before they receive. I don't poke at them or complain, although they do sometimes cause people behind them to pile up and stumble a bit. It's just what happens.