Miss Manners: I keep making excuses to avoid lunch with my good friend

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a reader whose good friend keeps suggesting lunch ...

Miss Manners: What’s happened to money I donated for friend’s life-saving surgery that insurance eventually paid for?

The scrutiny of any future requests, Miss Manners believes, is what will really hurt him -- and the rest of your circle -- ...

Miss Manners: I claimed to have a conflict, and then I got caught

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A good friend asked me to join her and a few other people for lunch. This was not something I wanted to do, so I claimed to have conflicts on the two dates she suggested. Then she ...

Miss Manners: What’s the best way to decline an invitation?

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or ...

Miss Manners: Relative in retail just revealed a career secret I never knew; is this true?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My niece worked at a well-known retail store in the 1980s. She told me they were required to greet ...