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Miss Manners: Is it rude to use an umbrella when it causes people in your orbit to get wet?
If absolutely stuck next to them, you could open your umbrella just enough to make a small tent over your head, in which case ...
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: 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 ...
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 ...
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Miss Manners: Umbrella etiquette in crowds means you have to get creative
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.
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 ...
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Miss Manners: People who interrupt your gardening deserve a quick answer, then an about-face
GENTLE READER: While she agrees that neither pretending not to hear nor running and hiding are good solutions, Miss Manners ...
Miss Manners: I just want to garden in peace, but my neighbors won’t let me
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am lucky enough to have gardens all around my house, including along a city sidewalk. My problem is how ...
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How Camellias Captivated Mississippi Writer Eudora Welty—And The Rest Of Us
Eudora Welty dreamed of camellias. More specifically, she once had an all-night dream in which she watched “all the billions ...