Miss Manners: If it’s one person with a laptop, can I ask to share their table?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A genteel, proper tea at a traditional hotel requires one to sit demurely at a table too diminutive for ...
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Miss Manners: Sharing a table

Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; ...

Miss Manners: Is it OK to sit at the same table as someone working on laptop at coffee shop?

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to sharing a table with a laptop user.

Miss Manners: Is it rude to ask someone alone with a laptop at a coffeeshop to share the table?

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...

Miss Manners: Is using fingers to eat pastry ‘not done’ at a traditional fancy tea service?

Alone among the three of us, I lifted pastry to lips using my fingers and held each successively smaller remainder until all ...
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Alexandria woman teaches children that good manners make a good impression

Carolyn Rothermel taught two levels of “Mind Your Manners” programs, one for first- and second-graders and another for third- ...

Having Your Phone Face Up on the Table Is Bad Manners

Even when it's unintentional, it can leave the folks who aren't using their phones feeling invisible. If you want to be more ...

Miss Manners: He’s naked under his robe. He thinks I’m weird for keeping my distance

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My housemate is male, 73 and retired. He rises in the morning and spends his day in a ratty terrycloth ...

Miss Manners: My 73 year-old male housemate spends his day in a ratty terrycloth bathrobe

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My housemate is male, 73 and retired. He rises in the morning and spends his day in a ratty terrycloth ...