I don't think of myself as an old fogey but there are times that I realize I probably am.
A young friend was married this weekend and today posted on her social media: "Rule of ettiquette (sic), if you are invited to a wedding and you go then you are supposed to give a gift. I always do. People are rude today. wow!!"
I wonder if she realizes that another "Rule of ettiquette" is that you don't air this piece of laundry in public where anyone could read - especially those looking for wedding pictures.
And especially the day after the wedding.
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Yeesh! Who's in charge of teaching manners these days? Didn't we have them (or hear about it if we didn't) in the "old days"?
Ms. Cookie
I know that I monitor my children (who are adults) on their social media (they call it stalking) so they don't act like this.
The girl hadn't even checked into the hotel for her honeymoon!!!
I couldn't have told you who did and who didn't give me a gift at that point. That really wasn't my focus.
Wow...that is unbelievable...how, exactly, does she think she's qualified to comment on the etiquette of OTHERS?
Beats me. If I were one of the rude people who hadn't given her a gift in return for attending the wedding (how I read it), I would be rethinking both giving gifts and attending weddings.
YIKES! This made me physically cringe. Perhaps the lady deserved exactly what she got (or, more to the point, exactly what she'll get as a result of this post)?
That is so sad. We got married in June, and we ASKED people NOT to bring gifts, but just themselves.
Or, if they did, to bring something they had used and loved and were planning to replace anyway.
One family listened - they gave us a really good knife from a set and a story to go along with it. It was great!
And to focus on presents on your wedding day?
I would guess its a shadow of the future of this marriage.
This is NOT about old and young fogeys. (I'm a young fogey.) Its about priorities and values, plus a little bit of verbal (fingeral?) diarrhea
wonderful. I wonder if she tweeted that, or sent it from her Blackberry (it drives me crazy when I get the sent from.. message at the bottom of an email. Basically, so what how you sent it? ;)
Just goes to show that no matter what era we live in, rudeness has no bounds.
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