DEAR MISS MANNERS: Dinner parties and entertaining are not the only currencies of friendship.

I frequently gave rides to a friend of mine, who later bought a nice home and began hosting dinner parties. I assumed she was throwing these dinners as thank-yous for those of us who had chauffeured her around for decades, but no -- she was bummed that I was not reciprocating dinner for dinner. When I said that my home is not suitable for entertaining, she suggested a picnic.

I am also annoyed that when I was organizing picnics and events for our group some years back, she didn’t attend. Apparently she thought she was supposed to step away from our group if she was not in a position to reciprocate invitations.

There are many kinds of support, including helping the hostess with cleanup, pet-sitt

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