WEEKEND COLUMNISTS Idon’t mean to blow my own trumpet, but people regularly apply to me for judgments over infractions of the social variety. They feel a slight, which they’re not sure is real, and contact me straightaway. Was the compliment, “You look great, what a transformation!” deliberately intended to inflame? Was my mother-in-law’s gift of cookery lessons a dig? When my colleague bought me Relax bath oil, would it be insane to have asked if there was anything behind the purchase? If my husband has coffee with a woman he met on the train, should I make a fuss?
That sort of thing.
