Re: Proofreading Matters

qvcaddition · ‎03-10-2010

@San Antonio Gal wrote:
@qvcaddition wrote:

This just happen to me. I am giving a dinner and the neighbor across the street in her 70's lives alone. I texted if my sauce comes out good, I will bring you a dish.
She is not very friendly, but I have known her for years, not close, she
is not someone who converses, but her Father was a good friend of mine, and when he passed, she move in. We just wave. I just thought, she knew i was giving a dinner and wanted to offer her some.
Spaghetti and sauce with Italian pork sausage and hamburger.
She declined, OKs Has to watch what she eats.
Here's where I got into trouble.
I said, so sorry, I guess at my age of almost 90.. I can still eat anything, but you know your body.
I didn't realize I offender her, and she text back.
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The kindest response I can make to your last text, will be no respose all.

I responded with I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. Please accept my apology.I'm sorry if I was out of line.

I didn't think I was out of line, was I?
I am not a person that goes out of her way to hurt people. I am sorry. She is not friendly to anyone in neighborhood, like the other nice neighbors who .help one another and have helped me alot.
I just thought she would like a dish of spaghetti.
Twenty + years ago, after her Father died, a great man, I made Lasagn and had her and her brother for dinner, so I offer the dish I'm making for tomorrow's dinner.
I did apologize, but I will ignore her from now on or she will ignore me.

@qvcaddition - I don't think your text was out of line. You were very kind to offer her a dish. I agree that it's best just to ignore her.

I wish you were my neighbor!

Thank you. I really am a helpful neighbor and she has called on me when she needed something, and that's OK. We should help one another. The rest of my neighbors have been wonderful.

Yesterday, one neighbor that has been texting me and me her. We had never met. She is 61 and alone, her husband is deceased. Well, yesterday we went out to lunch and had a wonderful time. Even with the age difference, we just talked about everything. No problem for either one of us.

She could not believe my age when she saw me or even after we spent hours together. We are getting together next week for lunch again and going to play Bingo on Friday nights. She has lived in this neighbor around the corner for 42 years and I 49 years, but we had a lot in common with our past. My other neighbors have been so kind. One gave me a very nice printer for Christmas, new, and just won't stop giving. I try to do or give to her and she said, no, if I like someone, I like to give. A whole new world has opened for me. This lady has a super big heart.

I have been so blessed. She told me to pay it forward. Today, I'm dropping off an application to the Animal Shelter to volunteer. They were so good and helpful to me when my dog Melanie passed in Dec. I have the time and the energy. I have discovered some very nice people in my neighberhood, so the lady that made that comment is missing a lot of good neighbors. Her lost. These nice people live a block away and around the corner, but one neighbor giving out food to the elderly and those in need is how it all started.

The neighbors closer to me I use to know, either passed or moved, but a whole new neighborhood has opened. I am very blessed.

I hope you have a good neighborhood or good people around you. Take care and for you post.

Etoile308 · ‎01-04-2014

@qvcaddition, I wouldn't take your neighbor's comment personally or give it another thought. It is possible that she became defensive or felt you came off as superior writing that at your age you could still eat everything. I know you meant nothing by it, but we never know what can trigger others. We never know what they're dealing with.

I say, try and put it behind you. Treat her the same as always. You know your intentions were well meaning. That's what matters.