Miss Manners: How to handle feeling left out in a beauty salon conversation
GENTLE READER: Funny. Miss Manners is more accustomed to being asked how to stay out of beauty salon conversations, not how ...
Miss Manners: A virtual stranger disrupted my bowling party, and nobody knew what to do
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
Miss Manners: How to handle a new guest who overtakes your birthday bowling game
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...
Miss Manners: Dad's bully girlfriend bogarts the bowling lanes. How can we stop her next time?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
Miss Manners: I was shoved aside at my own birthday bowling bash
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names ...
Miss Manners: My father’s rude girlfriend shoved me aside at my own birthday party
At a bowling party for my 40th birthday, my dad brought his girlfriend. It didn’t take her long to try to take over the whole ...
Miss Manners: Dad’s new girlfriend ruins bowling birthday party
No one knew what to say or how to stop her, since we don’t really even know her, and no one wanted her to be uncomfortable.
Miss Manners: Dad’s girlfriend makes a scene at my bowling birthday party
Dad’s girlfriend showed up to the letter writer’s bowling birthday party and took over. Dear Miss Manners: For my 40th ...
Miss Manners: I wasn’t invited to the wedding but they sure seemed to want a gift
I brought a gift to a wedding shower, but wasn’t then invited to the wedding. So when I received an invite to a “backyard ...
The six signs YOU are the annoying mum everyone at the school gates is talking about
Back-to-school month is a stressful time. There are tantrums about what to wear every morning, upturned noses at the content ...
The Spokesman-Review16d
Miss Manners: People are being melodramatic about my ‘scary’ dog
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I moved to a new area and adopted a large dog from a shelter. Large dogs were common where I grew up, and while some people didn’t care for dogs, very few people were scared ...
The Washington Post17d
Miss Manners: How to respond when asked if I breastfeed my kids?
Dear Miss Manners: I am the mother of two young children: a 2-year-old girl and a 5-month-old boy. How should I respond when people ask me if I am breastfeeding them? I recognize that this is 2024 ...