Dear Miss Manners: My friend and I both have baby girls: Hers is about 6 months old, and mine is 3 months. She has given me a ...

GENTLE READER: Unforgivably? As in, so bad as to never be excused, ever? Miss Manners agrees there is an indelicacy to ...

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Dear Miss Manners: At a dinner party at our home, my husband left the table momentarily, and a guest picked up his mug of ...

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it proper for company employees to address customers by their given names? Banks do it, call centers do ...

Banks do it, call centers do it, salespeople do it. I appreciate being called “Mr. Smith” instead of just “Bob,” but it ...

However well-meaning this family is, Miss Manners can understand that it creates a nuisance for your daughter, who is trying ...

The family sitting next to me at a restaurant had a child that shrieked the entire time. Is there anything I could have done ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My friends, all gainfully employed adults, will often invite a group out to dinner or drinks to celebrate ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it proper for company employees to address customers by their given names? Banks do it, call centers do ...

GENTLE READER: Decent people do not, as you said, admonish people directly. Nor do they go looking for trouble. If the ...