My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge and arrive anyway.
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We cut our stay short due to the terrible odor, primitive accommodations and insufficient space and privately vowed to never return.
These are friends of mine, and I do want to entertain them, but I’m afraid I’ll be limiting them to barbecues in the future.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed-- china, crystal, linen, silver-- that ...