Sun, 06 Feb 2005
Yesterday, I received a thank-you note from my friend, Mike. He hasn't
recently gotten married, had a child, or had a birthday (at least, not that I
know of). In fact, I hadn't bought Mike a gift for anything. He sent my wife
and me a note thanking us for having him and his girlfriend, Lisa, over for
dinner. It was a very nice note, but it seems completely unnecessary.
My mother always told me how important it is to send thank-you notes after
receiving gifts, but I'd never heard of sending them after being invited to
somebody's home. I would assume that Mike is just extremely polite, but his
note was the second such note we've received in the past couple of months.
After a little party we had, my friend, Meagan, sent us a
similar note.
Did I miss a lesson by Miss Manners? Is American society becoming gracious?
Or do people just want to take advantage of the fewer and fewer opportunities
to actually use hand-written correspondence?
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