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Is it okay to send out graduation announcements after graduation?
Yes. Of course the sooner you do so, the better.
BEWARE: Informing your friends and family, in person, via telephone or in the course of general correspondence as to how how thrilled you are that your progeny has graduated is announcing information – whereas ‘formal announcements’ to all and sundry may be, and often WILL be, seen as trolling for gifts, which may be perceived, in some circles, as vulgar.
How would one monogram this name for a gift – Brian Earl de Raad?
BDE is the correct monogram, despite the natural inclination to use the “R” because his last name in fact begins with “d.” Typically the center letter would be larger that the others flanking it.
I have a question about line etiquette. Today I was standing in a long line for the ladies room. Due to the fact that there were not sufficient stalls people were using the handicapped one. A woman insisted that her handicapped friend jump the entire line and use the handicapped restroom. The sticky part of this situation comes from the fact that she was insisting on cutting in front of a woman with a small little boy who had been waiting in line for a long time and really needed to go. How does one handle a situation like this?
In this situation the person with the disability would have the priority. Just as someone from one of the other lines could offer, someone with a disability might allow someone with a child close to an emergency to go first if they were not facing a similar emergency as this would be a considerate thing to do. Ultimately though, there are very good reasons why we have handicapped accessible restrooms and parking and those who use them truly do need them to be available.
My word!
Why, on earth, would able bodied people be using a handicapped facility in the first place?
To be complaining about someone requesting to use the facility built for his/her necessity is appalling!
What is your suggestion? That the handicapped person wait in line and when it is his/her turn and the purpose built stall is being used he/she should let the next 3 or 4 people ‘jump’ ahead of him/ her until his/her purpose built stall is once again available?