Need I say more?<\/p>\n
How about the fact that they\u2019re hypercritical, about my claimed lack of proper manners as a host, and my housekeeping ability, in particular, and after their last visit here they complained, not to me, but to my husband? \u00a0(He defended me, but it\u2019s still no fun to be in his shoes.) \u00a0Oh, and, what\u2019s more, their life experience is so narrow that they simply don\u2019t understand that German and American manners and expectations are different.<\/p>\n
So wish me luck for the next week. \u00a0Posting may be particularly light, or particularly heavy, depending on whether I am (or feel) obliged to play the polite hostess all the time, or just give up (and if they end up watching German TV in the evening anyway) and retreat instead.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Need I say more? How about the fact that they\u2019re hypercritical, about my claimed lack of proper manners as a host, and my housekeeping ability, in particular, and after their last visit here they complained, not to me, but to my husband? \u00a0(He defended me, but it\u2019s still no fun to be in his shoes.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n