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.

However, if you are dead set on chastising yourself, Miss Manners will allow you to send a short note saying that you enjoyed ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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've asked him questions every single day, from how do you pick up that stem, how do you lay your knife and fork in between ...