Sure, and it even has an equally offensive title: a “smash cake.”
What possible began with one harmless father or mother providing a child a primary style of cake — to comically messy impact — shortly grew to become a viral development. And now everybody thinks it’s required.
Miss Manners is right here to inform you it isn’t — and would have thought that, particularly with inflation and a recession looming, this made-up custom would have misplaced its (negligible, if not nonexistent) allure. Because it stands, it offers different international locations but another excuse to deplore us.
Expensive Miss Manners: After aiding an off-the-cuff good friend with an internet utility, she thanked me with a present of a clutch pockets that she purchased throughout a current worldwide trip. I’m all the time joyful to assist folks, and achieve this with out expectation of compensation.
This clutch is from a preferred designer. I seemed it up and located that it retails at almost $1,000. Considering it could be a knockoff, my husband and I checked a number of on-line sources, however the pockets doesn’t have any of the telltale indicators we examine.
A knockoff pockets valued at possibly $20 can be an acceptable reward, and I might put it to sensible use ASAP. But when it’s an authentic, I discover it uncomfortably extreme and would favor to promote it. (I might change it with a look-alike simply in case she noticed me use it someday.)
I do not assign any worth in any way to designer issues, however I do know this good friend does. She is sort of status-conscious whereas I fortunately stroll round with my $15 bag. It could make me sick to wear down a high-dollar pockets the way in which I take advantage of my every day stuff.
A $20 reward card would have thrilled me, however I really feel anxious about this reward. Ought to I proceed to research the pockets’s worth, or simply use it the way in which I take advantage of the identical outdated one I’ve had for years?
You really need that $20 credit score, don’t you?
You talked about that your acquaintance purchased the pockets whereas on trip. Maybe she didn’t need it anymore and thought of it an off-the-cuff regift, fairly than a priceless current?
Regardless, the pockets is now yours and Miss Manners assures you that you could be do with it what you need. Which appears to be endlessly researching its worth and wishing it had been $20 as an alternative.
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