The most common comment that I hear is an extremely sarcastic “Must be nice!” &mdash as if I am the sole person upon this
planet to earn PTO. I am extremely respectful and conservative in most situations, but hypocrisy will make my blood boil. I obviously cannot obliterate their faulty logic with a brutal one-liner, because I’m at work. What should I do Gentle Reader: Spiteful hypocrisy that makes your blood boil Miss Manners is afraid that you have a very low boiling point. This is what passes as office humor. Please do not escalate it to brutal. There is enough unemployment as it is. Dear Miss Manners: We attended two weddings that were at least a nine- and 13-hour drive away. One was on an island. These families are our very close friends. We were not invited to the rehearsal dinners. As we were coming into town for the second wedding, we did get a call to come on over to the rehearsal dinner (it had already begun), but we were too far away and could not make it. We were surprised by our friends. They are not poor. Gentle Reader: You were not in the rehearsals, were you So why are you hurt at not being asked to the rehearsal dinners Yes, Miss Manners knows that you came a long way and that you know that there were rehearsal guests who were not in the rehearsal, either. The name of that event hangs on, even though it is now more often a catchall for relatives, out-of-towners and such.
Well, apparently not a catchall for all this time.