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[quote=Anonymous]I’m going to assume this is someone elderly, and I could see my MIL, who is. Or particularly mobile, doing something like this and I would translate it to mean “I’d like to buy you flowers/your kid strawberries, but am not physically capable of doing so myself, so here’s some cash to get that thing for yourself the next time you go to the store.” And then say thank you in response. If my kids actually want strawberries, then I would buy some. If I’d like the flowers, I’d buy them. But if my kids don’t actually eat strawberries or I don’t want flowers, I’d graciously decline and say why (kids don’t eat them, flowers just die so I don’t like to buy them, whatever) and I’d still say thank you. If they just kept insisting, then I’d get something else i/kids wanted (stand still say thank you). If this is a perfectly capable younger person, I’d just decline.[/quote]
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