42 - Sunday, December 2, 1990 - North Shore News Mir. Cratchit LIFESTYLES North Shore church holds sale CRAFT DISPLAYS and demonstrations take place Pauls and her husband conduct home Bible studies again this year at the Annual Country Christmas involving professional athletes from the Vancouver Fair. The event will take place on Dee. 3 at North Canadians and B.C. Lions. by] Shore Allrance Church, 201 E. 23rd St., North Van Paul's presentation includes tips on how to make starting at 7:15 p.m. your home a peaceful, caring environment. { Special guest’ will be Joan Pauls, a popular Kim Mitton, a graduating music student from Scroog DEAR MISS MANNERS — Please bear with me — today [ am not a Gentle Reader. My fiancee works at a coffee shop that has taken the city by storm. This year they have prac- tically ordered their employees to participate in a Christmas gift ex- change. They demurely said, ‘Don't spend over $7 on a yift."* Well, she only makes about $40 a week there, working part-time; she is a full-time student. There is no one she works with that she would consider more than a work acquaintance. These people aren't her friends, and we both find it odd that her basses are trying to enforce some sort of Christmas spirit. This is a complete departure from our usual giving, and this year our money is tight. We are about to get married and are buy- ing a house. We had no plans to buy our families extravagant gifts this year. We were both going to bake gifts for our parents and sew things for each other. Everyone else was going to get Christmas cards from us. The next blow is an office Christmas party that everyone is expected to attend. (I’m working then — I raight blow a gasket if I attended.) All the shop’s branches will be closed for this spectacular event at the owner’s home. The assistant manager wants allt employees to give $3 for a present for the big boss who’s throwing this magnanimous party. My fiancee says she’s going to bake cookies for the gift ex- change, and agrees with me on turning down the $3 request. Have you ever heard of such extortion in a season that is sup- posed to be for giving to charities (which we have already done) and to those we care about? Miss Manners, [{ have nothing against Christmas spirit, but this smacks of downright extortion PERSIAN & Kashkhai (Persian) Mx8.... “| Turkmen (Persian) 8x6..... | Hamedan (Persian) 4x6..... Kilim (Persian) 4x70... 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It seems to us rude. Call mea Scrooge. GENTLE READER — As Miss Manners recalls, Mr. Scrooge was not an employee (nor the fiancee of an employee) who neglected to contribute to buying his boss a present. It seems to her, rather, that he was an employer who had been ungenerous to his employee, to the point of injustice, long before the question of Christmas spirit got into the labor-relations pic- ture. Miss Manners does not believe it belongs there now, except in the sense that Christmas falls at a convenient time to reward employees with end-of-the-year bonuses. Your fiancee, as a part-time employee, is in a position merely to point out that she has other obligations and that her salary does not cover the suggested ex- penses. 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