Dear Queenie,
My sister has lots of boyfriends but I don’t. I just have one and he is kind of shy. On my birthday he bought me a box of expensive chocolates and brought them to my house when I wasn’t home.
He gave them to the maid to give to me but she is new and doesn’t know all of us very well yet, so she gave them to my sister by mistake. My sister took them and shared them with all her girlfriends.
When I asked where they were, because I knew they should be there because my boyfriend told me he was going to leave them for me, she just said she thought they were for her because she is always getting presents from her boyfriends. She didn’t even apologise for the mistake and neither did the maid.
Queenie, what do you think of that?—Angry birthday girl
Dear Angry birthday girl,
I think it was careless of your boyfriend not to put your name on the package or to put a card inside. If he had done so, your sister would have known immediately that it was for you and would have had no excuse for her mistake. And if you were expecting the package, you should have told the maid what to do with it.
However, I think your sister and the maid both owe you an apology and your sister owes you a box of expensive chocolates.
I also think it is very foolish of your sister to accept gifts from unknown donors, especially sweets that might have been tampered with. You never know what kind of kooks are out there, and it isn’t just small children who shouldn’t accept candy from strangers!
