Dear Anxious,
While it is tempting to use family relations to try to
save a little money in your "Social Activity" budget,
moving is a time of great stress for most people.
Added the annoyance of a relatives dirty auto parts in
the living room might have longer impact on your
marriage than the short term benefit of dollar
savings. Family support of your social activities is
essential to being able to continue them. Might I
suggest that consider sharing a hotel room with one or
more of your "Social Activity" friends, if you are not
planning to help with the move.
Alternatively, you ask some of your friends if your
tires can be stored along with theirs during the
weekend's activities.
> --- Anthony Tabacco <atabacco@california.com> wrote:
> > Dear Miss Manners,
> > I have an upcoming "social" event in the
> Sacramento
> > area that will last
> > through the entire weekend. I have decided to stay
> > over the weekend at my
> > wives sister's house, who lives in Sacramento. My
> > problem is that this
> > "social" event, which will entail storing
> automobile
> > tires in her living
> > room, happens to coincide with the weekend she
> will
> > be moving to a new
> > house. Now I know that my charm alone will
> mitigatm
> fore
> > the fact that the
> > demands of my "social" event will preclude my
> > helping her carry twenty five
> > years of possessions to her new digs, so there are
> > no questions of my
> > presence being considered ill mannered,
> > inconvenient, or tacky. No, my
> > question to you Miss Manners is, "Should I store
> the
> > tires in the new house
> > or the old?"
> >
> > Signed,
> > Anxious in Orinda
> >
> > Oh, by the way. Since my wife will be helping her
> > sister out that weekend,
> > would it be good manners to ask her to carry my
> > tires up and back, since she
> > will be in the area anyway? She has a much larger
> car.
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