Re: RSVP (and pinatas)

On May 12, 6:44�am, Chookie <ehreben...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Is it? �I'd only ever ask for a phone no. if I expected to need it in the near
future. �If some random parent waltzed up to me and asked to swap numbers I'd
think she was a bit odd. �Is that what you USians do? �Obviously you are much
more free with personal information than we are: �if a public school published
a student directory here the principal would probably be hung, drawn and
quartered!


That really surprises me. I'd have thought (though I don't know
precisely why) that folks in the US were much more likely to be
uptight about swapping addresses than those in Australia. Why is it
not done? Is it seen as unsafe somehow?

--Helen
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