Miss Manners’ hope is that no matter the profession of your brazen new friend, they will easily be able to relate to the objection of providing free labor. It looks fine.' Miss Manners hopes that your daughter-in-law has a sense of humor, and doubts that she will want to keep feeding you the cue for that speech. There is a disturbing trend in Miss Manners’s correspondence that she wishes to address, lest Gentle Readers give up hope of a more polite future. Now that I look around, he did a pretty good job. I’m sure that you, as an overworked and exhausted (insert asker’s occupation) understand how precious any time away from work is.” GENTLE READER: 'Why, that lazy, no-good son of mine. She was given her assignment at 7 a.m., and I reminded her about it two more times. GENTLE READER: And that right there is the polite way to say no: “I am very sorry, but Scott is just so busy right now, he doesn’t have any extra time - even to help out a friend. DEAR MISS MANNERS: I recently had an issue with my co-worker/friend. He has no interest in doing their work in any manner - not for free or for money. He always ends up saying yes, resentfully, and now he doesn’t want to make any new friends at all because they all seem to want to use him as their personal handyman. What is a polite way to say no? We feel especially uncomfortable when we know someone is not in a good place financially. But a handwritten response is always better - if only to show that the guests are less gauche than their money-grubbing hosts.ĭEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband is very handy, and works for himself flipping houses and doing construction.Įvery time we get close to new people, they seem to expect him to fix their home needs: leaking plumbing, doors that stick, any home maintenance that they don’t know how to handle. A text is probably fine, given the casual circumstances. GENTLE READER: “Coin shower”? And this, Miss Manners is to understand, is only the warm-up to the “cash tsunami” that is the wedding? How charming.īut you only asked about how to send your reply.
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