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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmm....how can you forget?  Well, my dh works 70 hrs a week and is never home and, I suspect, having an affair.   I have 3 young and very busy kids, 2 of whom likely have adhd.  I have adhd.  I also have a child with a chronic medical condition and mounting debts, and I have a parent w/ Alzheimer's who lives nearby and whose care I am responsible for coordinating, nevermind wanting to spend as much time with as possible before they slip away completely.    Sorry I forgot the note.  but that how.   Thanks, btw, for adding to the stress in my life.  Congratulations.  [/quote]

And I am a mother and a wife, a homeowner, have a full-time job with extra hours and a lengthy commute, and a chronic health condition which makes me tired all the time, not to mention plenty of other issues and responsibilities. But I can still manage to send thank you notes. They may not be the most timely, but they still get sent. We all have things going on in our lives that can be used as excuses. Whether or not we choose to do that is what sets us apart.[/quote]

Hilarious. You call out someone else's sob story, and yet you think your sob story makes it okay to be delinquent with yours? Bha ha ha. You're no more correct than the non-writers. Also, every single manners guru out there says it is a breach not to thank a person for a gift (and actually, in person for a casual gift does the trick for the most established advice mavens) but it's a bigger breach to point out another person's breach of etiquette. Did you know, for instance, if someone begins to eat from the wrong butter plate or drink from the wrong cup that you are supposed to simply do the same rather than point out the other's mistake? It applies across the board. Pointing out bad manners is, well, bad manners.

Plus, most of you seem really, really mean. Is it really worth it to you that a tired, frazzled, frustrated and grieving mom sit down and hand write thank you notes when her sincere thank you in person was offered? Do you really fucking care about that so much that you would sit there and say to yourself, if my dear friend has 5 minutes to herself, I would MUCH rather her sit down and spend her only five minutes writing a note to me rather than have a cup of tea or close her eyes for a minutes. If so, there's a label for that, too, in addition to bad manners. It's called selfish. [/quote]

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