We truly and absolutely do not want gifts, but is it wrong to want people to take five minutes to write a card?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Once a month, my grandmother hosts a group of friends at her house for a chat and an afternoon tea. She ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Once a month, my grandmother hosts a group of friends at her house for a chat and an afternoon tea. She ...
It is true that we no longer dance around in the elevator so as to allow all the women to get out before the men. There is, ...
Miss Manners hopes it is not to commit the unpardonable rudeness of calling out a guest’s rudeness to her face. (The guest’s face, that is. Once the guest is gone, you are free to try to convince your ...
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a reader's confrontational approach to preventing ...
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a reader after their delicate cardigan was ruined ...
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 ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: When did people become so insecure that they take offense at pretty much everything? I’ve noticed a huge shift. Compliments given by strangers are now considered an insult or an ...
As shoppers flood stores across the country during the year’s biggest shopping season, retail workers are bracing for what many describe as the most demanding — and often demoralizing — stretch of the ...
The workplace is an etiquette minefield, it turns out. The Wall Street Journal’s quiz on office manners stoked much debate and some grousing about what’s polite behavior in the modern workplace. And ...