Anonymous wrote:My MIL swears her hairdresser cut her necklace and stole the diamond pendant. When she got home and noticed the broken chain, she went back to the salon and went through the swept up trash looking for the missing diamond but did not find it. Her insurance agent said it happens all the time and believed that her own hair dresser also cut her necklace in an attempt to steal it. I don't wear necklaces and I always remove my earrings before having my hair cut just so they're not in the way. However, I find it hard to believe that this could be a widespread practice without a ton of women noticing their necklaces being cut at the hair salon. Has this happened to anyone here? MIL is in CA.

While I believe this as an isolated incident could have happened, I do not think this is a widespread practice. However her agent saying it happens all the time makes me wonder.

Reading through this thread I thought for sure someone would say they'd want to visit the "grassy knoll".

I think I would want to visit a victorian household and just see how they really lived for a day. Especially since I could come home after 24 hours to superior medicine and plumbing.

Or since this is a magical hypothetical I think I might want to witness the day the very first of our ancestors experienced humanity.

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ciaojenny wrote:OP here, I should have known better than to try to make a fun post.

Thank you to those that answered in the spirit of it all. FWIW I did indeed mean taking pride in ones appearance, just as stated in my OP and not any of what Miss Grouchypants accused me of.

I will add that I would love if actual mailed thank you letter came back. I still use them and the people receiving them must think I am rude because I don't send an immediate email

The arbiter of good manners just called me "grouchy pants". And the irony continues. Thanks for the laugh, girls.

Hi Miss GP, did you appoint me as the arbiter of good manners? Because I certainly didn't appoint myself.

I think I will take the PPs advice and give you the last word. What is that saying? "Don't feed the trolls."

Georgetown.

Husband is from Waukee, Iowa and I'm from Newport Beach, California. Culture shock for us both when we moved here a couple of decades ago.

I have to wonder if this might finally wake some of the children up and one or two of them will make a break for it. Maybe Derek will grow a back bone and he and Jill can live a life closer to his upbringing than hers.

Anonymous wrote:I have one 18 month old and MIL constantly asks me if I'm going back to work with different variations of the same question. Do you miss work? No. Has your old job contacted you about going back? No. Do you want to go back? No. Will you ever go back? No. Would they take you back if you wanted to? I don't know. I am so tired of these questions. Am I being too sensitive? I had a very demanding job and we are in good shape financially partially because I saved tons of money when I was working. Does anyone else experience this from their inlaws?

I don't think you are in the wrong to be bothered by this and I do not think you are being too sensitive. I really don't understand why SAHMs get grilled in this way, it is like the person is trying to guilt them or something.

OP here, I should have known better than to try to make a fun post.

Thank you to those that answered in the spirit of it all. FWIW I did indeed mean taking pride in ones appearance, just as stated in my OP and not any of what Miss Grouchypants accused me of.

I will add that I would love if actual mailed thank you letter came back. I still use them and the people receiving them must think I am rude because I don't send an immediate email

What specific manners or points of etiquette are important to you? Anything you wish more people would remember or any "old school" manners you would like to make a comeback?

I started thinking about this when speaking to a friend about how gentlemanly my husband is and how I was taken aback by this when we first met. It comes very natural to him and I hope it will to our boys. I also want our girls to see this as a reflection of a man's character and not of hers - whether she is attracted to gentleman qualities or not. He is also white collar and business etiquette is very important to him, I admire that about him.

As for manners that are important to me, I find people who are habitually late extremely rude and self centered. I also wish people dressed up more and took more pride in their appearance. I don't care if you are a prep or a psychobilly, you can wear clean clothing and comb your hair. Put on an actual pair of pants to go to the grocery store, things like that. Also prompt correspondence, people are so easily accessible today yet are not, you know? Table manners are a pet peeve of mine too, slurping and slouching. Wearing a hat at the table or leaving a huge mess when at a restaurant. Whenever I host a party or guests in our home, I always try to adhere to proper etiquette because I think it enhances my guests experience without them even noticing. I could go on, but I am interested in hearing what others think. Its also funny to me, sometimes some of the wealthiest and most "society" people I know day to day are actually ruder than others who are not considered a part of that "circle".

Haha, I am sure I sound very uptight, I am not. I don't want 1940s Emily Post here, I just think we've lost a great deal of simple etiquette that would go a long way in our society. Also I am sure I do something that is considered poor manners to someone else, this is a very subjective subject.

There is something about the opening notes of Madonna's Borederline that takes me right back to my childhood/teen years.

I may be way off base here but I have always wondered why John David seemingly had no relationship with his closest in age brother and was very standoffish with the show. Perhaps he was disgusted that his twin sister had been molested and then left unprotected by his parents? John David has always seemed like a decent guy, veering away from the family line.