DEAR MISS MANNERS: Once a month, my grandmother hosts a group of friends at her house for a chat and an afternoon tea. She ...

It is true that we no longer dance around in the elevator so as to allow all the women to get out before the men. There is, ...

It is true that we no longer dance around in the elevator so as to allow all the women to get out before the men. There is, however, pandemonium on first floors, when people wishing to board will not ...

When the elevator doors open, I spread my arms and say in a loud voice, “It is not polite to crowd in when people are coming out.” ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a reader's confrontational approach to preventing elevator crowding.

How can I respond with dignity when people insist on defining my husband by a mistake from decades ago, instead of by the ...

It is a simple matter to preserve your dignity with former victims of your husband’s crime who now wish to maintain their ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Here’s a moment that has bothered me for decades. When I was an unworldly 20-something male visiting ...

Miss Manners says, "There is no need to invite people to judge your husband on his behavior, past or present." ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I live in a large city and take public transportation almost daily. I am 80 years old. The busses and ...

GENTLE READER: It was another Gentle Reader who once came up with the polite way to handle this situation. The idea is to ...

It is currently more polite to say “No problem” or “No worries,” which imply that whatever was done, the doer was happy to do ...