Miss Manners: Friends don’t keep movie snacks to themselves

Pre-pandemic, she and her husband and daughter would go away for holidays — typically one week, typically two weeks. I’d feed her cat twice a day and water the yard. She supplied me $20/day and I declined, saying that associates don’t take cash from associates. I by no means was paid for taking good care of her cat and yard, however one time she took me out to lunch as a thank-you, and one time she gave me a pair of gardening gloves.