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: Let’s be polite to our robot overlords
GENTLE READER: The phrase you want is “How nice FOR you,” with the emphasis on the “for.” Repeat as necessary. Please send ...
Lehigh Valley Live3d
Miss Manners: Please stop calling me ‘mom’!
DEAR MISS MANNERS: When I take my sons to the pediatrician or call to make an appointment, the receptionist or nurse always ...
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: 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: My fiance refuses to forgive my uncle’s racism
When I mentioned the prior jokes to my uncle, saying that I was glad he and my fiance had put it behind them, he completely ...
Miss Manners: How should I respond to rude comments about my gray hair?
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: I felt like stealing her groceries when she broke the self-checkout rule
GENTLE READER: Techniques for changing the subject of a conversation rely on a combination of surprise and persistence, Miss ...
Alaska Dispatch News13d
Miss Manners: I’m a nonbeliever. How do I respectfully tell people to ease up on the religion talk?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I used to be religious, many years ago, but I now identify as pagan -- meaning that I believe in the ...
Alaska Dispatch News14d
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 ...