GENTLE READER: Your confidence that you are not required to reciprocate in your apartment, though technically correct, ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
At 10 years old, my granddaughter sometimes hurls insults at me. Without giving her the power of knowing she can wound me, what’s the best way to admonish her?
Dad’s girlfriend showed up to the letter writer’s bowling birthday party and took over. Dear Miss Manners: For my 40th ...
Miss Manners has sympathy for the rampant abuse of hosts when it comes to inviting extra people and dictating menus. But she ...
Do we have to invite them to join us at a restaurant at some point? If so, may we try to “dilute” them by inviting others?
GENTLE READER: What your friend is doing is a breach of both etiquette and friendship. But Miss Manners assures you that if you treat it as such, just once, you will not have to repeat yourself: “If ...
GENTLE READER: Restaurants refuse to seat incomplete parties to maximize revenue, not manners. But as the practice is not ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Because of a chronic illness, I have to go to a clinic in an urban setting three to four times per ...
The scene is the drawing room at The Grove, near Wallingford; the pink and white palette ageing in a genteel manner, yet ...
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