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, ...

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.

Miss Manners assures you that you are not being impolite if, after one or two short responses, you find something to do that ...

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: There is a lovely couple in their 30s in my community who have gone through fertility struggles. They have ...

I noticed a woman near me at a restaurant had returned from the restroom with her zipper down and underwear showing — but she ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am appalled at the current practice on TV home decor shows of placing books with their titles to the wall. It is a huge fad. I keep waiting for one of the hosts to realize that ...

Still, Miss Manners supposes she should be grateful that physical books are displayed in the home at all. This silly fad will ...

Still, Miss Manners supposes she should be grateful that physical books are displayed in the home at all. This silly fad will change back again — it did with vinyl records — as people start to realize ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: While at lunch at a casual restaurant, I noticed a woman joining a large group, who were all standing ...

"Unless the bookshelf has no backing and can be flipped around, putting them in backwards is, indeed, dumb," Miss Manners ...