Direct debit involves sourcing someone who knows someone, who can get to someone who has what you need. A credit history is built up with favors rendered. Not even via e-mail or text, so you can’t blame it on the They have no place in the strictly mercantile favor exchange in Russia. You never ever get a thank-you note in Russia. What makes me hold a gun to my daughter’s head and deprive her of leisure and enjoyment until she puts pen to paper to thank someone for a gift or a visit, a favor, or simply going out of their way? I suppose it is because my mother held a gun to mine, and her mother held one to her head…all the way back to the Flood. Velvet skipped off to go for a ride and I swung the car back towards home, contemplating the thank you note zeitgeist. “That’s true,” I say, “but only Babushka and Dedushka give you things in Russia, and you are always there with them, so you don’t have to write them a note…and anyway, if you did, it would probably never reach its destination anyway…what with the postal service being the way it is.” In the car, Velvet comments that she never has to write thank you notes in Russia.
#THANK YOU IN RUSSIAN HOW TO#
She slumps at the kitchen table and scratches away diligently, but unenthusiastically for forty minutes, occasionally asking how to spell “quilted” or “polar tech.” Velvet grimaces, but silently takes the list, box of writing paper and roll of stamps I have ready for her. “Do them now,” I say, “Non-negotiatiable.”
“Mooooohhhhhhmmm…” she wails, “I’ll do them after.” “I’ll drive you over,” I bargain, “if you write your Christmas thank you letters.”
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