A couple attended a friend’s concert at a local restaurant and made their exit right before the band played their last song ...

If absolutely stuck next to them, you could open your umbrella just enough to make a small tent over your head, in which case ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Lately it has seemed that the phrases “We’re pregnant” and “They’re pregnant” have been subsumed into ...

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.

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: While she agrees that neither pretending not to hear nor running and hiding are good solutions, Miss Manners ...

Advice columnist Judith Martin, with her tireless efforts to expand the understanding and exercise of etiquette, always has ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: One of my in-laws will wait for a person to finish speaking, then say something on a completely different subject. No “hmmm,” “interesting” or any other noncommittal ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I used to frequent a coffee shop in the suburbs, where I would work on my laptop for a couple of hours before catching a train to the city. One day, as I was working ...

Dear Miss Manners: I used to frequent a coffee shop in the suburbs, where I would work on my laptop for a couple of hours before catching a train to the city. One day, as I was working, a man ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to the host of a New Years Eve party who thinks adults are using them for free childcare. DEAR MISS MANNERS: For the past four ...