Miss Manners: ‘I’ll have to get back to you’ may mean you lose out on an invitation
I invited a friend to a concert more than a month ahead of the performance. She said she'd have to get back to me. Two weeks ...
Miss Manners: Was I wrong to ask a man to remove his baseball cap at the theater?
I asked a man sitting in front of me at a college musical to remove his distracting baseball cap, which he did. My wife later ...
Miss Manners: I like to give gifts, but never receive a ‘thank you’
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to someone who is questioning their own generosity ...
Miss Manners: Uninvited vegan guest offered criticism and not much else at dinner party
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Am I the one who is in the wrong here? When I invited several friends to dinner recently, I was shamed and ...
Miss Manners: Uninvited vegan guest judged my refrigerator contents
An uninvited, vegan plus 1 showed up to the letter writer’s dinner party and promptly criticized all the food. Dear Miss ...
Miss Manners: I walked past a professor lying in the hallway. Was that rude of me?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was walking in the humanities building of the university where I am a graduate student. I turned the ...
Miss Manners: Was I rude to mind my own business?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was walking in the humanities building of the university where I am a graduate student. I turned the ...
Miss Manners: Should I have stopped to help a fallen professor on the way to my office?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was walking in the humanities building of the university where I am a graduate student. I turned the corner of the hallway that leads to the offices and saw one of my professors ...