By doing so, she is telling her friends how much they need to spend and depriving them of the fun of choosing a special gift ...

My instinct is to return the item in a little bag with a note saying it isn’t mine. But somehow that feels rude, presumptuous ...

GENTLE READER: Your confidence that you are not required to reciprocate in your apartment, though technically correct, ...

Dear Miss Manners: My children’s school district is the first organization I’ve dealt with in my professional career in which ...

GENTLE READER: Restaurants refuse to seat incomplete parties to maximize revenue, not manners. But as the practice is not ...

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

GENTLE READER: Restaurants refuse to seat incomplete parties to maximize revenue, not manners. But as the practice is not ...

We were meeting another couple at a restaurant and found out they had already been seated and ordered drinks. Is it wrong ...

I was at an event recently when a woman I did not know asked, “So, you don’t really NEED that thing, do you? You just like ...