She acted like my standard for dinner manners is out of date.
As an example, when he has eaten at our house, he has said that what I serve “isn’t enough” and that I need to provide more . I was shocked and let my daughter know that he is incredibly rude.
I was furious when I heard this, and I asked my daughter how she would respond if her children behaved this way in front of a host. That was the only way I knew to get across that bad manners and rudeness are wrong regardless of generation.GENTLE READER: What Miss Manners heard was a polite and clever daughter finding a way to motivate her boyfriend to change his lifelong bad behavior without, herself, being rude — or requiring him to inquire too closely into his own understanding of the world.I refused to go to a fundraiser this year because the food was so bad last year, and because the cost of the dinner was over and above the donations. I decided, with so many charities to choose from, to donate elsewhere.
The other day, a friend I met for coffee swooped in for hugs upon greeting and again when saying goodbye.
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