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Reminds me of the woman who turned our plates over to check the brand.

My ex-mother-in-law did that when she went with me as a guest to the home of one of my best friends.

Haha Glad she achieved X status.

My friend and I had a big laugh, because she had a few place settings of a really fine brand of china. Once, while we were out antique shopping, we found a huge set of a lesser brand--I mean, like twelve place settings--and it looked almost identical to the good stuff.

She was throwing a really big Christmas Eve dinner, so she was using all of both sets. I saw my mother-in-law pull the plate maneuver, so I sidled up to my friend and said, "Which was it?" She grinned and said, "It was the good stuff."

So my status-conscious mother-in-law spent the evening thinking she was surrounded by a fortune in china.