I tried to be sociable, and she responded with this thinly veiled smackdown.
: I was active-duty military, eligible to shop in the commissary, where goods were somewhat less expensive than at a civilian market. My pay was also less than the equivalent civilian profession.Miss Manners: Must I step aside for a customer who is finally ready?
But if you are instead just following the newly popular trend of reading ill will into a casual act, are you not being both unkind and illogical? We have been informed that the recently engaged sibling of one of them intends to invite us to their wedding. I find this odd.
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