If he must rummage in the kitchen for a plain glass, is he inflexible, or is his hostess?
: A close friend has entertained my spouse and me several times. She is a gracious hostess and often sets out her finest stemware and tableware.Miss Manners: Can I announce my son’s graduation but not his screw-up?
My husband says the hostess is being inflexible, but I think he is the inflexible one when he does not abide by her preferences. Since both you and your host have made your preferences clear, Miss Manners is reluctant to help out your husband. But against her better judgment, she will offer that the only polite thing your husband could say would be, “I’m so afraid of breaking one of your beautiful glasses. Perhaps you have something sturdier for my clumsy hands.”
Perhaps by then, you will have impressed upon him that his “I’m just a regular guy” attitude is not quite so endearing as he thinks.: While cleaning out my mom’s attic after she passed, I found love letters from my old girlfriends from 50 years ago — well before I married my wife.Advice |Miss Manners: She said I was an awful host because of the breakfast bungle. Was I?
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