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: They say I’m rude to use my umbrella like this
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 ...
Miss Manners: Is it bad if my umbrella gets other people wet?
GENTLE READER: Are you hoping that Miss Manners will say it is fine that your umbrella is channeling additional water onto ...
Maria Shriver Made Her Kids Stand Up 'Out of Respect' Whenever She Entered a Room — and Says They Still Do
“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill and Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis are among those evacuating their homes as fires continue to break out across Los Angeles, causing more than 30,000 people to flee the ...
Miss Manners: I don’t like when people call me by my full name
Dear Miss Manners: I travel frequently, and I have noticed that airports are reducing the number of seats at the gates. I will arrive at the gate more than an hour before boarding, only to find all ...
Miss Manners: How can I get a teen to stop texting the family?
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