Miss Manners: How to deal with nosy neighbors while gardening
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am lucky enough to have gardens all around my house, including along a city sidewalk. My problem is how ...
Miss Manners: They say I’m rude to use my umbrella like this
On occasion, it will start raining when I am in a crowd — at the ballpark, for example, or waiting for the light to change on ...
Miss Manners: Please don’t pester prolific gardener with complicated questions
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am lucky enough to have gardens all around my house, including along a city sidewalk. My problem is how ...
Miss Manners: Gardener would rather talk to plants than neighbors
I respond in a cordial, or at least a civil, way to friends and neighbors who ask me questions about my garden while I am ...
Miss Manners: It is rude to open an umbrella in a crowd of unprepared people?
A well-prepared reader gets chastised for opening her umbrella in a crowd; a gardener thinks it’s rude when passersby ...
Miss Manners: Whose responsibility are the raindrops that drip from umbrella onto someone else’s head?
If absolutely stuck next to them, you could open your umbrella just enough to make a small tent over your head, in which case it will drip only onto your own shoulders. But you would be excused for ...
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Miss Manners: Live and let live — even the ‘We’re pregnant!’ people
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Lately it has seemed that the phrases “We’re pregnant” and “They’re pregnant” have been subsumed into acceptable usage.