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Dear Miss Manners: Player finds fault with tennis team
Dear Miss Manners: I was on a tennis team and was eliminated during a tournament. I was supposed to play two matches: I played one and won, but then got injured and bowed out of my second match. I ...
Dear Miss Manners: Co-workers want to visit my home
"None of these people have ever socialized with me, so I find it odd and awkward that they would suddenly invite themselves." ...
Miss Manners: The secret about my new house got out, and now things are awkward at work
Miss Manners understands that people who have trouble saying no might be sorry to disappoint those who importune them. Or ...
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Miss Manners: Someone ordered me to call them at a specific time - and I didn’t
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Someone I know messaged me about 5:30 p.m., requesting that I call them that evening as they had good news ...
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Miss Manners: Co-workers are suddenly inviting themselves over to my new house
None of these people have ever socialized with me, so I find it odd and awkward that they would suddenly invite themselves.
Miss Manners: I’m 64 and my mother is still correcting my table manners
(She) insists that when I am offered another helping of food, it’s rude for me to reply, “No, thank you, I’m full.” ...
Best of Miss Manners: Polished toes are ‘a must’ when wearing open-toe sandals, 89-year-old is told
I have not worn any kind of nail polish since I was in my 20s. I do not want to polish my toenails, or my fingernails, either ...
Miss Manners: Is setting an ‘arrival window’ instead of a specific time rude?
(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...