On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:10:51 -0500, Jean B. wrote:

> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:38:56 -0800 (PST), Lenona >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Pretty amusing.
>>>
>>> Lenona.
>>>
>>> http://www.buffalonews.com/life/colu...icle325123.ece
>>>
>>> A proper postponement?
>>>
>>> Dear Miss Manners: A few weeks ago, my husband and I invited a couple
>>> who are neighbors to a small cocktail party, just the four of us. They
>>> were supposed to arrive at our house at 6 p.m.
>>>
>>> At 5 p.m. that same evening they called to ask us to postpone this
>>> party until the following night. I replied no and I mentioned that I
>>> had already prepared the food.
>>>
>>> The wife mentioned that the husband had an emergency and could not
>>> make it. I was stunned then, and I¡¦m still stunned today. When I
>>> looked outside, his car was parked in his spot at 6:15 p. m. I don¡¦t
>>> know how to react to this. To me, she should have maybe showed up for
>>> a short time to show us that this reason was legitimate and he could
>>> have joined us later.
>>>
>>> I spoke to her later and she appears like nothing happened and does
>>> not care that we lost hundreds of dollars worth of food and the time
>>> it took us to prepare the party. This has never happened to me in 50
>>> years. I had people cancel the day before, the morning of but never
>>> one hour before. How would Miss Manners react?
>>>
>>> Gentle Reader: With amazement that cocktail food for four people could
>>> cost hundreds of dollars. What were you serving¡Xbuckets of caviar?
>
> I, too, was wondering about that "hundreds of dollars". What
> planet does this person live on?

maybe she enters cocaine expenses as a food item.

your pal,
blake