GENTLE READER: Such an unpleasant invitation. There is no need to serve alcohol, but there is also no need to issue a warning ...

Dear Miss Manners: I have visited a dear friend a few times over the years, and each time, I am greeted with a lovely guest room: comfortable bedding, fresh flowers and fluffy towels, all of which ...

The “solution” of my going up the stairs first means that the woman is then left at eye-level with my buttocks.

Ordinarily, Miss Manners would advise you to treat this like the fundraiser it is — that is, to accept only if you consider ...

Not only is this more polite, Miss Manners assures you, but if you are truly an expert in any given field, waiting it out ...

A reader gets annoyed when the younger, new boyfriend called her a “cougar” in public. Plus, how to answer condescending, ...

A bridesmaid was shocked when the bride's mom sent her and the other bridesmaids a 'substantial' bill for her daughter's ...

I had no input as to how big this shower has become, and being asked — no, told — to pay for it strikes me as inappropriate.

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to if an elderly man can keep his seat on public ...

We set up a camera or phone on a tripod ...Almost every time we do this in public, a stranger will come up and ask if they ...

Miss Manners: The women at work ignored me whenever I spoke. What should I have done? Plus: My husband and his young receptionist reject my etiquette tips ...

Miss Manners feels certain that you will not have to get much further than the second sentence before your friend realizes what she is asking, starts to panic and retreats.