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Miss Manners: Parents Pull Out Leftovers for Holiday Dinner
Etiquette expert Miss Manners weighs in on a mother serving restaurant leftovers and relatives asking for help with a delayed gift return.
- On New Year's Day, the writer's parents invited the family over, and the writer's mother took out restaurant leftovers from New Year's Eve to offer everyone.
- The writer's mother said the leftovers wouldn't keep, and Miss Manners, etiquette columnist, notes family-only dinners relax formal rules while the rest of the group still had room for the guest's dish.
- The writer, who likes to cook, said they prepared two entrees and felt slight offense while the mother still defended her choice.
- As a practical step, Miss Manners urges a polite request rather than silent seething, recommending sending a note to arrange plate pickup and offering a light retort for family dinners.
- The writer and the writer's husband received a damaged item from relatives who live blocks away, repackaged it expecting the relatives to return it, but a week later the plates remain unreturned, leaving the writer annoyed.
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Dear Miss Manners: Guests brought leftovers to dinner after I cooked
"The next time you invite your mother over, tell her, 'I will be making duck a l’orange — unless, of course, you want to bring over any leftover fries.' "
·Dallas, United States
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