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 ...

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

Not that Miss Manners considers having children a luxury. It should be available to all, but it is highly expensive, and the ...

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

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am still not inured to the rampant trend of women tattooing their hands, feet, arms, backs and even ...

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 ...

Dear Eric: Recently I decided not to attend a holiday gathering with family members I’ve joined for decades, and instead ...

Dear Eric: Recently I decided not to attend a holiday gathering with family members I’ve joined for decades, and instead ...

Agatha Christie was an English crime novelist and playwright who became known around the world as the \"Queen of Crime.\" She ...