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 of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
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 of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
Miss Manners: Dad's bully girlfriend bogarts the bowling lanes. How can we stop her next time?
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: 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: Dad’s girlfriend makes a scene at my bowling birthday party
Dad’s girlfriend showed up to the letter writer’s bowling birthday party and took over. 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,
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 event to “show me how it’s done.”
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 ...
Best of Miss Manners: I don’t like being invited to street fairs, children’s parties or coffee dates
I’m at a loss for polite refusals that let the friend know that I like them, but not the activity they’ve invited me to.
Miss Manners: Neighbor couple had us over for dinner. Must we host them in return?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: A pair of neighbors hosted my wife and me for an impromptu dinner, to which we contributed a nice salad.
Miss Manners: My emails keep disappearing into the void
I make an effort to ensure that the person I’m reaching out to is the appropriate person for my question; I send a focused, ...
Best of Miss Manners: 11-year-old wants a birthday gift registry and her grandma thinks that’s tacky
By doing so, she is telling her friends how much they need to spend and depriving them of the fun of choosing a special gift ...
Miss Manners: Great friends don’t always make great hosts
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin shares what to expect when staying with friends.
Miss Manners: ‘Comfort’ dog causes discomfort to everyone else
DEAR MISS MANNERS: We have been friends for many years with a married couple and their adult son. They are very wealthy and ...
Miss Manners: I wasn’t invited to the wedding but they sure seemed to want a gift
I brought a gift to a wedding shower, but wasn’t then invited to the wedding. So when I received an invite to a “backyard ...