GENTLE READER: This may come as a shock, but etiquette does not care how your house is laid out (or whether or not you have a ...

GENTLE READER: The person leaving the facilities is usually allowed to exit first. But if the other person’s bathroom needs ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A director at my place of work sent out a system-wide email inviting everyone to a baby shower for her ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a professor at a small university. One of my colleagues has the annoying habit of entering my office ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin offers advice on how to handle colleagues who barge into your ...

My sister tells me that these words are no longer in use. Has the woke mob been tampering with our dictionary?

Ninety minutes to two hours, the expected time to linger at a cocktail party, is also reasonable for “just drinks.” In any case, one should not stay beyond the common dinner hour of 7 p.m., even if ...

As their parent, you have the obligation, in Miss Manners’ opinion, to tell them that you find this embarrassing. When they ...

We blame kids for bad behaviour, but the truth is adults have quietly stopped teaching basic manners. Without these lessons, ...

Miss Manners: When they hear where I worked, they say horribly rude things Miss Manners: I got my co-worker to stop yelling for me, and now she just barges in Miss Manners: Is it true that I shouldn’t ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I had a choking incident at the office today when I inhaled a cherry tomato. One of my direct reports did the Heimlich maneuver and helped loosen it, and then one of the guys from ...

Dear Heloise: In response to Diane T. in Arizona, I had the opposite happen to me. I had been going to a hairdresser for many, many years. It was my hairdresser who started to not be on time. My time ...