DEAR MISS MANNERS: I received a gift from a family, and the attached card listed all the family members, including a child lost in infancy. I have also received gifts from widows signed “Mr. and Mrs.” ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I received a gift from a family, and the attached card listed all the family members, including a child lost in infancy. I have also received gifts from widows signed “Mr. and Mrs.”GENTLE READER: It is unseemly to sign correspondence on behalf of deceased relatives, but it is also unseemly to pick fights with the bereaved. Address your response to whoever wrote the letter, and make it so touching and considerate that nobody notices how it was addressed.
When I suggested this amicable solution, I was met with an absolute tirade. Nellie called into question our very friendship, saying, “We all know that I’m not going to come if she’ll be there, so I think the plan was always for me not to come.” I thought her behavior was an overreaction. I have attended parties where people I dislike were also in attendance. I am cordial without being overly friendly, and I opt to talk with other people; I have never yelled at the host over the invitee list. Nor have I ever ended a friendship over that person having a friend I don’t approve of.
GENTLE READER: There is a common misperception that one rudeness justifies another -- which would be bad enough, were it not paired with the belief that anything someone else does that you do not like is rude.
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