Editor's Note: Little Disasters

Skip ahead to mid-March, when it occurred to me that I hadn’t heard a word from my bosses about their gifts. Odd, in that they’re certainly gracious people who don’t normally forget little niceties like “thank you.”

What to do? What’s worse? Looking like an oaf who goes chasing down acknowledgment of the gifts she gives or an oaf who couldn’t bother to do something nice for her supervisors (and friends, I should add) at the holidays? I swallowed hard and asked them about it, and — you’ve probably guessed it — neither had received any announcement of the donations. Are you shocked? I sure was. And embarrassed. And pretty peeved.