In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to someone who has a question about a mistake they ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was traveling with my granddaughter and a group of other grandparents and kids. The trip included some ...

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

A letter writer is bothered by a friend who keeps agreeing to attend events, but then cancels to do something else.

Miss Manners would have concluded by saying that backing out gives the impression you -- or in this case, your friend -- have no manners. After all, there is little doubt your friend preferred the ...

Miss Manners would have concluded by saying that backing out gives the impression you — or in this case, your friend — have no manners. After all, there is little doubt your friend preferred ...

Miss Manners would have concluded by saying that backing out gives the impression you -- or in this case, your friend -- have no manners. After all, there is little doubt your friend preferred the ...

GENTLE READER: If the pattern starts up again, Miss Manners suggests you issue a gentle ultimatum: “You seem to be too busy ...

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...

GENTLE READER: Your certainty that there was a snub in repaying your kindness with inferior tuna perplexes Miss Manners.

GENTLE READER: Is that not what the little plastic dividers are for? DEAR MISS MANNERS: The man I’ve been dating for the last year doesn’t use the words “thank you” or “please.” ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I need to know how I should have ... I would also have been a little flustered and stressed. We would have had to move to a bigger house, for one thing. But none of that was ...