We are invited out to dinner by a couple we met some few months ago.
The lady appears to be a housewife - though it turns out she runs some sort of business. For some reason, she attracts M.'s ire. 'Not someone I will go out with.' 'Probably cooks a lot.' Making fun of house-wifeiness.
M.'s brother and sister-in-law have just had a baby.
'They will take a name from the grandparents,' she says. 'My parents are far more likely, of course, to choose an appropriate name.'
'Why?' I ask
'Well, because ...' and even she probably feels embarrassed at finishing the sentence.
Her sister-in-law's parents do not - I believe - come from an 'old family' with illustrious relations.
However, they are lovely people who have brought up a lovely daughter. Are they incapable of being intelligent enough to think up a good name?!
You can be proud of your family's achievements but they are not your achievements. So, why this arrogance?
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