Questions tagged [act-of-kindness]
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How to ask to pay for products from a friend's shop rather than accepting them as gifts without being rude?
Little bit of background: a few weeks ago, my friend/coworker's sister, we'll call her Lila, opened up a shop with her boyfriend, let's call him Mark, about things that generally interest me. I've helped them as much as I could to set up the shop…
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How should I respond to someone cleaning my house without me asking?
So I asked a family member to nip to my house to get something while I was at work and when I got home they had thoroughly cleaned most of my house except for the bedrooms. I don't mean they quickly ran the vacuum around either, I mean scrubbed the…
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How to politely reject inviting a friend to my family's Thanksgiving dinner?
So my friend called me and asked me what I was doing later for Thanksgiving. I replied that I would go with my family to dinner at an uncle's house. Near the end of the call, he asked me if I would invite him to the dinner. I replied yes out of no…
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Why is this random act of kindness considered offensive flirting?
In Offering to share my umbrella without sounding creepy op, assumed to be a man, shares an umbrella with a woman because it's raining a lot. For some reason good portion of the response to this question revolves around flirting.
Given the…
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Do most people think they are all correct? How could we interact with people on the Internet if we'd like to give some advice?
This is related to interpersonal skills on the Internet.
I almost wanted to buy an item on eBay, but the item in the photo was placed on a bed with the bed sheet not only all wrinkled up, but there seemed to be some stain on it.
So I was considering…
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