If your last-minute cancellation meant that your acquaintance et al. were stuck with your share of the bill, then you must pony up the $40.
Another acquaintance walked around with a teaspoon stuck to her belly all day.
Skillful politicians will remember these acquaintances, and this knowledge of local concerns will stick with them when they get to the White House.
Especially against a batsman like Fulton, who only has a passing acquaintance with his off stump, we should have stuck to a relentless line outside off.
As Charles Fried, law professor at Harvard, wrote in The Times on Saturday, "Skillful politicians will remember these acquaintances, and this knowledge of local concerns will stick with them when they get to the White House".
If you feel strongly about your views but cannot discuss these topics with your acquaintances (I hesitate to call such acquaintances friends) without their lapsing into impolite, boorish behavior, then I suggest you stick to safe topics around them and join a self-identified political group that can be welcoming, accepting and affirming of the full range of your developing thoughts and views.
Off-color jokes or statements may be great for the guys, but try to stick to something more classy around strangers or general acquaintances.
When you talk, stick to shallow, surface topics, just like you would with an acquaintance.
When I visited Lois Underhill, a gardening acquaintance, at her splendid garden in Sag Harbor, N.Y., last July, she ushered me over to a bare stick.
"Delete them," the acquaintance responded.
