Or full of shit. When you encounter someone – say, at a cocktail party – who says that their only motivation is to help others, you should excuse yourself immediately and go help yourself. To another drink. Otherwise you are in for a wonderful night of passive-aggressive accusations that you, yourself, are not open to love, […]
An economically disadvantaged discussion: I have a friend who recently came into a great deal of money. It wasn’t the lottery, but years of hard work that paid off dramatically. Now he can afford much nicer things, and I find myself insecure about returning any kind of hospitality. He’s never said anything one way or […]
Excavating the ruins of a friendship or a relationship is always tricky. The classic line of He said / She said morphed somehow into Sex, Lies and Videotape – one imagines it was the advent of videotape, as sexing and lying have been quite popular for some time – and now you can’t get away […]
A jilted lover’s friend of a friend complains: My very good friend slept with another good friend, a couple of times, and now their little fling is over. Fine and good – but now she runs him down when he texts her and I just don’t want to hear it. He’s still a friend of […]
A selfless soul searcher suggests: With the Christmas holidays right around the corner, I was wondering if you have any advice on how to tell people that you just don’t want any presents. I have plenty of stuff, if I see anything I want I just buy it right away, but I don’t have all […]
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A most welcoming hostess asks: What’s the etiquette for a three-way? LISTEN: Oh, you kids and your new technology. The most important thing is to let both parties know they’re on the call…hold on a minute – – OK, I’m back. You meant a ménage à trois, didn’t you? Conveniently, it isn’t all that much different from a […]
A slightly flustered employee asks: I was sitting at my desk at work when a female colleague came to ask me a series of questions. Without any untoward interest, I noticed her fly was down, as her waist was at eye-level. I didn’t say anything, for fear of appearing like a pervert. If it was […]
A choked-up person requests: What do you do when you’re talking to someone about something emotional and they start crying? What about if it’s you that starts crying? What do you say? LISTEN: I never cry. If I did, I would have my own handkerchief handy. If you started in, and the aforementioned handkerchief was […]
YNTQ is hungover today. Here is an obviously auto-generated spam comment, presented as avant garde poetry. — Nike Pas Cher Happiness is mostly a parfum it is impossible dans le but de entirely on some […]