Miss Manners, December 18 2023: On shoveling snow for those nice elderly neighbors.

When helping backfires.

Link to the original letter here (scroll down for the letter about snow shoveling).

My take: To recap, the LWs have taken it upon themselves to shovel snow for some older neighbors who are immigrants from an unnamed country. The neighbors keep thanking them with lavish gifts of food, which the LWs don’t want. How can the LWs tell these people that isn’t …