Gimme, gimme, GIMME!
What is the matter with some people today? I just read this Dear Abby letter today:
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I received a wedding invitation from my nephew’s son, whom we have never gotten to know very well. Included in the invitation was a deposit slip to a bank savings account “in lieu of gifts”!
We later learned that everyone on the guest list received a deposit slip, even the grandmother. Is this proper? This is the first time we have ever heard of this, and frankly, we were rather insulted. — PUZZLED IN COLORADO
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DEAR PUZZLED: Please waste no more time feeling offended. The family who issued the wedding invitation is obviously grossly ignorant about the basic rules of etiquette. According to “Emily Post’s Etiquette” (17th Edition), when issuing wedding invitations, “any mention of gifts or listing of gift registries is unacceptable.”I am sure you dealt with the solicitation you received as you would any other. Just be glad they didn’t have your bank account number, or you would have found enclosed with your invitation a notice stating that your account had already been debited $125 to cover the cost of your dinner.
First of all, it’s bad enough that a family member that the letter-writer barely knows is trolling for gifts. It’s even worse that he’d trolling for CASH gifts. This is rude beyond rude.
And Abby’s last sentence isn’t far off the mark. I read the following letter yesterday in Ask Amy:
