Tag: etiquette
Miss Manners: My husband is still complaining about the wedding bungle
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I received an invitation to the wedding of a colleague’s child. Every piece of correspondence noted, “This is a black-tie affair....
Miss Manners: Is it really so horrible to have a guest...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: We are empty-nesters who always seem to have a guest stopping by for a night.I love having guests. What I don’t...
Miss Manners: Is my wife right that our college grad owes...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was wondering if my daughter should have sent thank-you cards to my wife and myself when she graduated from college.My...
Miss Manners: How do I tell him he’s coming across as...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m a 23-year-old lady with a 54-year-old father. At restaurants, he often makes comments to the waitresses, asking them if they’re...
Miss Manners: What should he have said to the rude shopper?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband was at the grocery store yesterday and a woman was blocking the aisle, bending over to look at an...
Miss Manners: My gift wasn’t on the child’s registry, and the...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Gifts used to be something one put thought into. Unlike some of your readers, I don’t mind wedding registries. I treat...
Miss Manners: My son was invited to a dance and then...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My son was invited to a high school dance by a young lady from another school.When he arrived to take group...
Miss Manners: Was I wrong to play this prank on the...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: While my best friend and her partner do not believe in traditional marriage, they were married at city hall following the...
Miss Manners: We told our friends the truth, and now they’ve...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: We were scheduled to have dinner with two friends at the tail end of a fun week — several days of...
Miss Manners: They ditched our high-drama friend, and now they pretend...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For over a decade, we had a close bunch of friends who socialized frequently. Then came Josh and Jenna’s horrid divorce.We...