DEAR MISS MANNERS: After a meal at a restaurant, my mother is in the habit of vigorously rubbing both of her hands with one ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After a meal at a restaurant, my mother is in the habit of vigorously rubbing both of her hands with one ...

GENTLE READER: You could have said just that — and then privately searched your internet history for hints of why he would ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: On our neighborhood app, one of my neighbors cautioned that two young men had recently knocked on her door ...

A reader gets a social media message from a past acquaintance, who researched his “challenging” career history. What would ...

"I’m expected to go along with this farce and play the Wedding Guest: dressing up, sitting through it all, congratulating ...

When they go out to eat her mom makes a big show of washing her hands at the table with lemons and drinking glass water.

Your doctor’s practice has probably survived without your encouragement. And Miss Manners supposes that the people who ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I enjoy having friends and acquaintances from different walks of life, and have found unexpected kinship with people who hold beliefs very different from my own. Related Articles ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend called me asking if she could crash at my place that same day. I thought that was super-rude. Miss Manners: She referred to her dog as her kid, and I didn’t know what to ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I enjoy having friends and acquaintances from different walks of life, and have found unexpected kinship with people who hold beliefs very different from my own. In other words, I ...

Notice that Miss Manners does not suggest saying any version of the common (but not etiquette-sanctioned ... Are white-painted fingernails and toes out of line as a wedding guest? GENTLE READER: Yes, ...