"My parents invited my family over for New Year's Day to celebrate. As I like to cook, I prepared two entrees to be reheated when we got there. I put in time and effort to prepare a meal they would enjoy. My parents were going to make some pasta and also picked up bread. Upon our arrival at their house, my mother took out some leftovers to heat up."
"Perhaps this is how she defines family style? Yes, this was inconsiderate, but if it was a dinner for just the family, formal rules are a bit more relaxed. At least she offered samples. And if that was all the rest of the group was getting of her dinner, they still had room for yours. Rather than harbor anger, Miss Manners suggests that you might take this as gentle teasing."
A parent-host heated and offered restaurant leftovers at a family New Year's Day meal after a guest prepared two entrees to be reheated, causing the guest to feel slighted. The parent argued the leftovers would not keep until the next day. Such behavior can be inconsiderate, but family-style gatherings often permit more relaxed formal rules, and offering samples still left room for the prepared dishes. A constructive response is to treat the incident as gentle teasing and reply with good-humored banter when next hosting. A separate situation involved a damaged online gift and relatives asking the recipients to handle the return, which was ungracious.
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