Dear lady manners: Between my husband and me, each of us previously married other people, we have four children, 11 grandchildren and five great -grandchildren.
We have married each other for almost 25 years. Six of the grandchildren and all the great -grandchildren have been born during our marriage.
I am especially close to some of the grandchildren from their family side. But when I am with a group of friends and I mention something about children, they often ask me what my “real” grandchildren are.
I find that question is extremely rude, and I answer that we do not divide girl.
Is there a better way to answer this question? However, I have to ask why the person’s horses to know or why it is important.
Soft reader: “Everyone is very real, the last thing I checked.”
What you need is an answer that closes that line of research and “Why do you want to know?” It’s not. You will only get an answer or “was curious”, which still lets you need a presentable or “good form, it is not your business.”
A fast ingenuity person could even find a different reason for their issues of issues, be intrigued by family similarities, which would prolong the investigation.
If they were Miss Manners, she would prolong it in a different way:
“Let me think,” she would say. “Well, Lily is certainly real. She is finishing the university and takes a master’s degree. Kyle is taking a sabbatical year, traveling in Asia, and he is real. Lauren is also doing that, he also does it, to go from raw babies, all Verhy babies. Therefore, she is realistic enough to work. She works in AI so that I do not tell me, but she tells me.
“But that is the grandchildren. Children are retired or they get to retirement, and talk about what they really should do now. And you are likely miracle, the great -grandchildren!
And so on, for as long as possible. Miss Manners can promise him that it will not be a bit of curiosity that is in those formally entrometry interrogators.
Dear lady manners: I am planning my 70th birthday. I would prefer cash or gift cards to other gifts. Is it okay to ask my invitations for money, since I don’t need anything else?
Soft reader: And they probably have money they need, so they could well give it to him?
Send your questions to Miss Manners on the website, www.missmanners.com; To your email, gentleraader@msmanners.com; Or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndionction, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
