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

A parent wants to help their private chef daughter find a way to tune out distracting clients while she cooks.

GENTLE READER: The phrase you want is “How nice FOR you,” with the emphasis on the “for.” Repeat as necessary. Please send ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Dear Miss Manners: I am a young adult who bought a home in one of the highest-cost resort areas of the country — a purchase ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My neighbor and I had a heated disagreement about trick-or-treating. We are fortunate to live in a picturesque neighborhood of single-family houses, and our street is popular ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If I bring a food item that I prepared, and it turns out that someone else brought a similar item, is it impolite for the host to say, “You shouldn’t have brought this.