Advice; Best of Miss Manners: Isn’t it in bad taste for a bride and groom to eat steak while guests get pork chops? Published: ; Nov. 18, 2024, 10:00 a.m.

his mom didn’t send him with spending money, let alone send along some cookies or otherwise offer to contribute something to ...

One of her standard jabs is to bring me a gift with an insult attached. How does a polite person respond to repeated insults ...

Advice; Best of Miss Manners: We appreciate the gifts of food, but we wish we could eat what’s dropped off. Published: ; Apr. 14, 2025, 4:07 p.m.

Parents are supposed to guide their children and teach them all about being a productive member of society. But here are 11 bad manners used by people who were not taught how to behave growing up.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: One of the highlights of our trip to Paris was an opera performance at the Palais Garnier. The opera, “Médée” by Cherubini, is in excess of four hours, with two brief intermissions.

"Obviously, eating before the performance is an option, but dining quickly in a Paris restaurant is easier said than done." ...

GENTLE READER: Treating a joke as if it were meant seriously is the best way to defuse it. In this case, Miss Manners suggests, “Oh no! We thought we asked management to fix that.