Miss Manners: Good-mannered friend doesn’t extend courtesy as house guest
I have a longtime friend who seems to consider herself very well-mannered. She writes her thank-you notes on cards and mails them, while I send my thank-yous by email.
When she comes to visit me, she always brings a hostess gift. It’s very thoughtful, although it’s usually something I can’t use. I appreciate the gesture, though. I assume she feels it is somehow more polite to not soil a bath towel, but to make do with a hand towel. I don’t say anything about it, but it feels like an insult to me. I am trying to provide everything to make a guest feel at home. How should I handle this?Whoops! Miss Manners was about to chastise you for criticizing your friend’s good manners, and even to insinuate that you were doing so to justify your own lower standard.
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