DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a neighbor who texts me on a fairly regular basis, asking me for all kinds of different things -- usually food items.

She is not poor; she seems to go out multiple times a day and has delivery trucks at her house daily. I am not sure why she can’t make her own grocery runs, as we live very close to multiple stores.

If I respond that I don’t have whatever she is looking for, she usually replies, “That’s OK, I found something else to use,” as if it is my fault she doesn’t have something in her house.

It is very irritating, to say the least! This is a neighbor who, when she is out of the house, is more interested in her phone than in talking to my husband or me. I have blocked her in the past, but am not sure this is the right thing to do.

GENTLE READER: What she

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