Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
My neighbor’s son died on Christmas Day, unfortunately. His car has been parked in one of our parking spots ever since. My neighbor wants to give it away to someone, but will not take action.
You should ask the neighbor if there is a particular person or charity she would like to have the car, or whether she wants to sell it -- assuring her that you, the concerned neighbors, will handle either. And if she is not ready to let go of it, you can offer to move it to a nearby legal parking spot.: When closing a letter, I use the formula my grandfather habitually used: “Your Obedient Servant.
Your grandfather’s use of the phrase was different. He was just being cute, because that phrase was out of use long before he was born. It is beyond “old-fashioned” and well into “historic.” Yet people who read history might have recognized it and been amused.
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