I’ve realized these people are complete users. How do I gently get away from them?
GENTLE READER: Sadly, that seems to be the prevalent form of entertaining everywhere. Rather than planning parties just for the fun of getting together with friends, many people only issue invitations to celebrate milestones in their own lives.
Of course, such events imply gift-giving. Unabashed greed, now that perfectly solvent people are not ashamed to beg for cash, surely has a lot to do with this. Miss Manners has in front of her an invitation from an unknown couple -- they don’t give their last names -- asking wedding guests to make the down payment for them on a townhouse in a major city.
They are familiar, from childhood, with the format of a birthday party. And during college, they experienced spontaneous cooperative get-togethers where someone brought the wine, someone else made the spaghetti and others picked up dessert.Not necessarily.
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