DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am lucky enough to have gardens all around my house, including along a city sidewalk. My problem is how ...
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 ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am lucky enough to have gardens all around my house, including along a city sidewalk. My problem is how ...
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 ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am lucky enough to have gardens all around my house, including along a city sidewalk. My problem is how ...
A well-prepared reader gets chastised for opening her umbrella in a crowd; a gardener thinks it’s rude when passersby ...
This time of year, it often rains in the afternoon, and so I carry an umbrella with me. However, many people do not. GENTLE READER: Are you hoping that Miss Manners will say it is fine that your ...
GENTLE READER: Are you hoping that Miss Manners will say it is fine that your umbrella is channeling additional water onto ...
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 ...
Acquire a small sign saying that the facility is being cleaned, and place it in front of the entrance to the women’s restroom ...