DEAR MISS MANNERS: My friends manage to arrive at most places at a specific time -- doctors’ offices, work meetings, etc.

A truly bizarre encounter with a woman in a men’s bathroom has a reader wondering if these kinds of things only happen to him ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A car wash I patronize has two single-occupant washrooms, one labeled “Men,” the other “Ladies.” I had ...

Miss Manners therefore suggests that you turn that weak smile into something that does, in fact, betray your irritation, perhaps with a murmured “Not funny.” Anything less seems only to encourage him.

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...

She is the kind of person who always has SOMETHING wrong. Her complaints sometimes differ, but they all have one thing in ...

A reader gets annoyed when the younger, new boyfriend called her a “cougar” in public. Plus, how to answer condescending, ...

GENTLE READER: While it is kind of you not to want to embarrass him, he is not showing you the same respect. Miss Manners ...