Wednesday August 2, 2006 // By Sarah
Miss Manners
Email received 08/01/06:
Dear Ms. Lieberman: Please send another photo to be used in the Evanston Review as your engagement announcement photo. The attached one is inappropriate, as it shows you both in bed. This can’t be used. Thank you.
UPDATE: Take that, Miss Manners!
What! You can’t post a photo of you in bed in a suburban newspaper! I agree with Miss Manners. You’ll give the old people readers a heart attack!
And to think that I thought “you must have both pairs of eyes at the same level” was too much of a request!
Very bizarre. I can see why from their perspective but in this day and age?
Jon, it was your mentioning of that rule that prompted me to use this photo. Due to the nature of our difference in height, we don’t have many photos that work.
It’s not like we’re naked or anything. At least above the waist.
It’s the sultry bedroom eyes you guys are giving me that put it over the edge, I think.
Look at those sheets! How vulgar…
The weird thing about this story is that I (Sarah’s mom, who surely qualifies as an “old people reader”) sent in the offending picture without a thought, only to receive the sanctimonious rebuke from the self-appointed Ms. Manners.