[Sca-cooks] Completly, totally, inexcusably OT... but....

[margaret]

A gift is never necessary. If you wish to give him something anyway, the
best bets are something you know he enjoys (such as your mead) or something
he can use in his new life (a brief case if he is going into business).
Margarite


>I just got an invite to a friend's retirement from the Navy. Now it's in
>Phoenix AZ, and I can't go, but I have no idea of the proper ettiquite for
such an
>occasion. Is a gift expected? I can mail him a bottle of my mead (which he
>likes) or find something here and ship it, whatever's standard practice.
Did I
>mention he's non-SCAdian... at that point in my life I don't know that the
SCA
>was even in South Carolina <G>. The records of the first group go back to I
>think '78 or '79, and I graduated in '7 (mumble)...
>
>I's just hard to believe that somebody who was a kid (as in barely a
>Freshman) when I graduated from high school is now retiring after 25 years
in the
>Navy.... <G> Am I really THAT old?
>
>Respond offlist if need be, sorry for the waste of bandwidth, but we have
>experts of every stripe on this list...
>
>Corwyn
>
>There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well
please.
>And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the
>consequences. -- P. J. O'Rourke
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