I feel that if my mom wants her friends to receive thank-you notes, she should be the one to write them.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother has an active social life, with multiple friendships that have lasted decades. I have been assured that I have met these ladies, but that I was “just a baby” at the time.
These are unsolicited gifts from strangers. I have two young children and I do not have the time to sit down and write thank-you notes to people I don’t know. GENTLE READER: Has it become so commonplace to explicitly solicit presents that we have become resentful when people give them spontaneously -- and for the sheer pleasure of it?Yes, these inconsiderate strangers are using your children as a conduit for expressing their affection for your mother. How rude.
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