In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a host seeks advice on handling friends who arrive without RSVPing.

You were so kind to let us use the cabin. The area is beautiful and we were so happy to get away ...” Please send your ...

We cut our stay short due to the terrible odor, primitive accommodations and insufficient space and privately vowed to never return.

I gently hint that if someone is being rude, and the hostess does not ask them to be more mindful, then yes, people will stop ...

One guest is very snippety and degrading to the rest of the group. I gently hint that if someone is being rude, people will ...

Why is their desire to talk to me more valid than my wish not to talk to them? Is there an etiquette rule that says I must suffer instead of them?

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

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