Miss Manners: How to handle feeling left out in a beauty salon conversation
GENTLE READER: Funny. Miss Manners is more accustomed to being asked how to stay out of beauty salon conversations, not how ...
Miss Manners: A virtual stranger disrupted my bowling party, and nobody knew what to do
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
Miss Manners: How to handle a new guest who overtakes your birthday bowling game
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...
Miss Manners: I was shoved aside at my own birthday bowling bash
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...
Miss Manners: How does one politely and gently deal with being erased?
When I had my hair done, the stylist and her assistant spent the entire time talking over my head. There was no way I could ...
Miss Manners: My father’s rude girlfriend shoved me aside at my own birthday party
At a bowling party for my 40th birthday, my dad brought his girlfriend. It didn’t take her long to try to take over the whole ...
Miss Manners: Dad’s new girlfriend ruins bowling birthday party
No one knew what to say or how to stop her, since we don’t really even know her, and no one wanted her to be uncomfortable.
50 Table Manners Everyone Should Know Before They’re 30
Knowing how to behave at meals isn't just about proper etiquette. Turns out, your table manners send coded messages about you ...
Miss Manners: Shouldn’t our dining companions wait to order drinks until we arrive at the table?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I were meeting another couple at a restaurant for dinner, and we arrived 15 minutes before our ...
Miss Manners: Cousin keeps issuing bait-and-switch-dinner invitations
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I entertained two guests on separate occasions: One was a guest for the weekend, and the other just for ...
Miss Manners: I’ve fallen for her ‘come-over-for-dinner’ scheme twice
Twice, my cousin has invited me to dinner at her house — but when I got there, she hadn’t had time to cook. So we went to ...
Miss Manners: If this is her idea of having me to dinner, can I just say no?
Should you still wish to go to dinner at your cousin’s, you might ask her just beforehand whether she has had time to prepare, because if not, you will spare her the rush and go another time. It will ...