GENTLE READER: As someone who likewise keeps her appointments, Miss Manners also finds it annoying to receive 236,475 emails, phone calls and texts reminding her about them. Especially when she then ...
Such repetitive messages arrive by post, text, email and even dreaded phone calls. These multiple demands for confirmation ...
Where do people get off asking such personal questions? And better yet, what’s a good reply to shut them down?
Dear Miss Manners: Lately, I find that whenever I schedule even the most mundane of appointments, I am endlessly nagged by ...
Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, gentlereader@missmanners.com; ...
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to navigating social commitments with chronic pain.
Dear Miss Manners: I was at the dentist last week and the hygienist, whom I had never met before, mentioned she had a new grandchild. I naturally congratulated her and asked the polite questions: sex, ...
GENTLE READER: While Miss Manners agrees that this conversation jumped the rails, she does not understand why you were still holding on when it did.
Dear Miss Manners: I was at the dentist last week and the hygienist, whom I had never met before, mentioned she had a new grandchild. I naturally congratulated her and asked the polite questions: sex, ...
Although she generally agrees that guests are not supposed to ask to bring additional guests, Miss Manners notes that an ...
GENTLE READER: Let them have their laughs. Presumably you followed the festival directive: Scantily clad for maximum airflow.
Dear Miss Manners: I attended a music festival, where I wore pasties instead of a top. While there, I actually ran into a ...
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