Miss Manners: If it’s one person with a laptop, can I ask to share their table?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A genteel, proper tea at a traditional hotel requires one to sit demurely at a table too diminutive for ...

Miss Manners: Is it rude to ask someone alone with a laptop at a coffeeshop to share the table?

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