Miss Manners: Personal chef needs to kick family out of their own kitchen
The family members feel entitled to swan in and out, talk with each other and with her ... all while she works to prepare ...
Miss Manners: Teaching your family to respect your work without appearing rude
GENTLE READER: It is to our credit, Miss Manners believes, that Americans have an awkward relationship with those who serve ...
Miss Manners: The family my daughter cooks for won’t let her work in peace
My daughter is a personal chef for a family of four. The problem is they interfere with her work by trying to socialize and ...
Miss Manners: This family won’t let my daughter work in peace
However well-meaning this family is, Miss Manners can understand that it creates a nuisance for your daughter, who is trying ...
Miss Manners: Private chef keeps getting distracted by clients
A parent wants to help their private chef daughter find a way to tune out distracting clients while she cooks.
Miss Manners: I’m tired of my condescending family
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to someone who is bothered by unhelpful advice from ...
Miss Manners: Why does the staff at my kids’ pediatrician office call me Mom?
Dear Miss Manners: When I take my sons to the pediatrician or call to make an appointment, the receptionist or nurse always ...
Best of Miss Manners: Stop sharing our family business with people outside of our household, says wife
I feel like I’m living in a reality show, and maybe should be, since there are apparently so many people interested in ...
Miss Manners: Uncle‘s racist comments mean he won’t be giving me away at my wedding
Years later, my father died suddenly. My uncle was supportive to me then, and my boyfriend was cordial to him as a kindness ...
Miss Manners: Mid-30s woman stopped dying her gray hair during COVID. ‘People ask if I’m a grandmother!'
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I started going gray at age 14, so I’ve gotten a lot of comments about my appearance over the last 20 ...
Miss Manners: This vexing couple tailed us for the entire 10-week cruise
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Throughout our 54 years together, my husband and I have lived in, and traveled to, many countries, both ...
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Miss Manners: ‘Hope your terminal illness works out for you’
DEAR MISS MANNERS: What is the proper response when a casual acquaintance tells you that they have been diagnosed with a very serious illness? This is a person I have no connection to or interest ...