A letter writer is wondering if it’s selfish to use their umbrella in public places when others around them don’t have one to ...
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 ...
GENTLE READER: Are you hoping that Miss Manners will say it is fine that your umbrella is channeling additional water onto ...
If I open my umbrella, then the rain that hits it falls onto the people next to me, most of whom do not have umbrellas.
GENTLE READER: While she agrees that neither pretending not to hear nor running and hiding are good solutions, Miss Manners ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Lately it has seemed that the phrases “We’re pregnant” and “They’re pregnant” have been subsumed into acceptable usage.