I get it all the time, and my honest response makes things awkward.
: Are you under the impression that people who ask that question are eager to talk about your presumed grandchildren?
Not likely. As you say, they hope to start a conversation. Miss Manners assures you that they will happily embark on one if your reply is, “No, do you?”: We received a wedding invitation with an RSVP card directing us to a website with info on gifts. When we went to the site to research what gifts were desired, the only gift listed was cash. There were also boxes to check off in $50 increments.We never even receive acknowledgments or thank-yous for gifts given to these relatives. Thank you for educating me on the new etiquette.: What do you mean, “the new etiquette”? You know perfectly well that it will never be proper for solvent people to beg.
Miss Manners would think that their not even expressing gratitude is another reason to direct your charitable funds to the needy, rather than the greedy.GENTLE READER: I acquired, I don’t remember how, a spoon with teeth at the front. I don’t see how it could be useful as anything but a grapefruit spoon, but it is twice as wide as any grapefruit spoon I have ever seen, and it is spade-shaped.
Or so Edward Lear tells us, in his immortal poem “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat.” And he ought to know, because he made up the word. He also acknowledged that a duck might use it to spear spotted frogs.
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