You're making a conscious effort to not understand, so that you can feel good (maybe even feel great) about spewing insults etc. Go ahead, blow off as much stea

You're making a conscious effort to not understand, so that you can feel good (maybe even feel great) about spewing insults etc. Go ahead, blow off as much steam as you like. We're just two anonymous posters on the internet. Declining a dinner invitation is not wrong. But depending on the situation, you might not get invited again. Accepting a dinner invitation with the idea that the purpose is to still your hunger is misunderstanding what is happening. So is expecting a gift to be something which has to be useful to you. But declining a gift is a brazen insult to the giver, while declining a dinner invitation isn't. Even as children, we're taught to say "thank you" and be grateful when we receive presents, no matter if we like them or not. So when adults are complaining here about getting gifts they don't like, then I will say that there is some maturing to do. Even in our modern materialistic and ego centric world.