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

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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 ...

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

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 ...

The price tag on her can was within a few cents of what I paid for the albacore.Her action was deliberate. Never again.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I were attending a college production of “HMS Pinafore.” A student was sitting directly in ...

An uninvited, vegan plus 1 showed up to the letter writer’s dinner party and promptly criticized all the food.

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 ...

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 years -- shockingly, ALL from women. From my friends’ moms (“You’re ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’ve always tipped restaurant servers, hairdressers, pizza delivery drivers and manicurists, of course, understanding that most of these positions do not pay very well and the ...

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