Miss Manners: This family won’t let my daughter work in peace
However well-meaning this family is, Miss Manners can understand that it creates a nuisance for your daughter, who is trying ...
Miss Manners: Private chef keeps getting distracted by clients
A parent wants to help their private chef daughter find a way to tune out distracting clients while she cooks.
Miss Manners: Dealing with family who always have better solutions to your problems
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was dining solo, and a family with two small children was seated in my section. One toddler decided to treat the restaurant to prolonged, high-pitched shrieks. I didn’t want to ...
Miss Manners: Let’s be polite to our robot overlords
GENTLE READER: The phrase you want is “How nice FOR you,” with the emphasis on the “for.” Repeat as necessary. Please send ...
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Miss Manners: Why is there a vegan in my house judging my cheese?
GENTLE READER: Decent people do not, as you said, admonish people directly. Nor do they go looking for trouble. If the ...
Miss Manners: Was I wrong to ask a man to remove his baseball cap at the theater?
I asked a man sitting in front of me at a college musical to remove his distracting baseball cap, which he did. My wife later ...
Miss Manners: Host with an affinity for cheese is shamed by vegan guest
(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...
Miss Manners: An uninvited vegan snooped in my refrigerator and insulted my cheese
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Miss Manners: Uninvited vegan guest offered criticism and not much else at dinner party
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Am I the one who is in the wrong here? When I invited several friends to dinner recently, I was shamed and ...
Miss Manners: I live in a resort area. I’m tired of hosting friends and family.
Dear Miss Manners: I am a young adult who bought a home in one of the highest-cost resort areas of the country — a purchase ...
Miss Manners: Mind your own business, not a stranger’s wardrobe
Miss Manners is all for telling strangers – kindly and privately – about wardrobe malfunctions, but in this case, nothing ...
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Miss Manners: ‘Hope your terminal illness works out for you’
DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the proper response when a casual acquaintance tells you that they have been diagnosed with a very serious illness? This is a person I have no connection to or interest ...