Miss Manners: You might not want to yell ‘folk!’ in a crowded cafe
Readers offer suggestions for a gender-neutral honorific.
Asking Eric: How do we bar our longtime friend from playing with us?
This person ought to know their bridge days are over.
Miss Manners: My amusing stories don’t amuse the love of my life. Is she too sensitive?
She says it's offensive to even mention a past wife or girlfriend. Is she too sensitive?
Miss Manners: I was stunned by the barrage of insults my neighbor made about my home
Until our neighbor's wife rudely weighed in, our home had been complimented by anyone who visited.
Asking Eric: My boyfriend told me his neighbor’s secret, and I wish he hadn’t
He insists he was right to have told me her secret. Now it's going to be awkward for me to be around her.
Asking Eric: I want someone to tell this man’s wife that he’s obsessed with me
Plus: Is it OK to act like I didn't touch her laundry?
Miss Manners: I’m just buying tires, I don’t need to know your religious beliefs
When did it become appropriate for people to inject a statement proclaiming their religious beliefs into conversations that are not specifically about religion?
Miss Manners: Who gets to decide who can cut in the checkout line?
I think all the shoppers who are waiting need to sign off on it.
Asking Eric: I hold no ill will, I just need to know if there’s a celebration of life
Plus: How can I shut down her self-centered monologue?
Miss Manners: My friend insists it’s unacceptable to throw a baby shower for yourself
My friend keeps telling me how wrong it is, and that having men there only makes it worse.