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Miss Manners: Do we have to reciprocate a dinner with people we don’t like?
GENTLE READER: Your confidence that you are not required to reciprocate in your apartment, though technically correct, ...
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Where’s Miss Manners when fishermen need her?
OPINION — Judith Martin is among my favorite American newspaper columnists. She is best known by her nom de plume, Miss Manners. Her book, (one of 20) Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly ...
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Miss Manners: I don’t know how to give host gifts to my generous (and affluent) older relatives
Adamant assurances of your open-mindedness need not accompany it. Miss Manners, written by Judith Martin and her two perfect children, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Marin, has chronicled the ...
Miss Manners: I feel invisible when my hairstylist ignores me
But if they are talking pleasantries, you may smile or laugh or add something and see if it takes. There is a good chance ...
Miss Manners: I was shoved aside at my own birthday bowling bash
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...
Miss Manners: Dad’s girlfriend makes a scene at my bowling birthday party
Dad’s girlfriend showed up to the letter writer’s bowling birthday party and took over. Dear Miss Manners: For my 40th ...
Miss Manners: Thanks for dinner, but ... let’s not do this again
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?
Miss Manners: My father’s rude girlfriend shoved me aside at my own birthday party
At a bowling party for my 40th birthday, my dad brought his girlfriend. It didn’t take her long to try to take over the whole ...
Miss Manners: Should I tip the parking attendant even though I’ve been told ‘gratuities are not required’?
Some medical facilities ban tipping because they pay parking attendants a living wage, and do not want patients with medical ...
Miss Manners: Neighbor couple had us over for dinner. Must we host them in return?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: A pair of neighbors hosted my wife and me for an impromptu dinner, to which we contributed a nice salad.
Miss Manners: I didn’t tip the valet at the hospital. Then he made me feel guilty
The sign at the health clinic I visit regularly says tipping the valet is not required — so I don’t. But one day, the valet ...
Miss Manners: A virtual stranger disrupted my bowling party, and nobody knew what to do
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).