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Happy Tummy
Geez! IMO, the reason this article got so much flack isn't because of veganism or meat loving but because readers recognized the tone of the article itself as hypocritical. For someone who claims to be a classy dame, you're rather lacking in the manners department. You're nothing more than a big gossip, replacing friends' names with "Vegans" and other classifications. The penultimate rule of etiquette, my dear, is to comport yourself in a way that puts people at ease, something at which you have failed completely. So continue on, as you will I'm sure, to write these articles to convince the rest of us that you are what we should strive to be. We'll continue happily on our own way, understanding that the only person you really have to convince--and who you simply can't seem to convince, for that matter--is yourself.— April 13, 2009 12:59 p.m.
Do Right
I don't mean to step on anyone's toes here, but it seems to me like you and your family aren't seeing eye to eye primarily on what sympathy cards/flowers/sentiments are actually for. To you, since you didn't feel personal grief over Pop Pop's passing, you decided to opt out of the ceremony surrounding his death. But I think the point is that to your family, the ceremony surrounding his death wasn't for him, it was for them. The grandmother of a friend of mine recently passed. I'd never met her, yet I sent flowers for the funeral. I didn't send them because I was personally affected by her death, and I didn't send the flowers to her. The flowers were sent to my friend, and his family, and the sentiment I was extending was not grief over his grandmother's passing but sadness at his grief. So if you're saying that you were unaffected by the grief that your family was going through and didn't want to send a fruit basket to them, that's one thing. You never did mention to whom the fruit basket was even going, after all. Maybe it was only going to the side of the family with whom you have no contact. I still have my reservations--I think in times of grief, family should come together even if there hasn't been strong ties to that point because it might foster those ties going forward. But if you're saying that you didn't send something because you didn't feel for Pop-Pop himself, you erred more on the side of selfishness than self awareness.— February 5, 2009 10:27 a.m.