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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: Are you hoping that Miss Manners will say it is fine that your umbrella is channeling additional water onto ...

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 ...

I attended a children’s birthday party at a well-known pizza place where tables are reserved for a few hours and the children ...

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

If the children are of an age to understand, one can take satisfaction in explaining the lesson in the car on the way home -- ...

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