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

DEAR MISS MANNERS: We own a home in a fairly nice neighborhood where people take good care of their homes and gardens. Many ...

Is it proper etiquette for someone who volunteered to host a party for a select group to invite her own additional guests?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I work as a volunteer at a military base overseas. My problem is with a co-worker who will not communicate with me except via email. Usually the content of the communications is of ...

Dear Miss Manners: I was leaving an underground transit station and making my way to the escalator to go up to the street when I noticed a tall young man gaining rapidly on me from behind. We have an ...

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: I work as a volunteer at a military base overseas. My problem is with a co-worker who will not communicate with me except via email. Usually the content of the communications is of ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was leaving an underground transit station and making my way to the escalator to go up to the street when I noticed a tall young man gaining rapidly on me from behind. We have an ...

Miss Manners understands your regret, but it is fortunate that you merely froze, rather than taking up the offensive stance.

GENTLE READER: Texts are not letters -- they are not even emails -- so while Miss Manners has not seen what your sister is sending, she would guess that any lack of context, grammar, spelling, vowels, ...