These are friends of mine, and I do want to entertain them, but I’m afraid I’ll be limiting them to barbecues in the future.

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m a new employee at a large company. How do I respond to nosy co-workers asking about where I previously worked? I want to be polite, but I feel my privacy is being invaded.

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge and arrive anyway.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a single man who inherited, from my parents and grandparents, both a love of entertaining and also a great deal of the trappings needed — china, crystal, linen, silver — that ...

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

Why is it not considered rude to engage me in conversation against my will, but it IS considered rude to tell people you ...

My question is how to react when people do not respond to an invitation, nor to a gentle nudge (such as an emailed “I wondered if you had received this,” with a second copy of the invitation) — and ...

Why do strangers want to make small talk with me while waiting in grocery checkout lines, at bus stops, at the bank, during flights, etc.? STOP!