Our society is far from throwing off the notion that aging is unfortunate, if not reprehensible. But Miss Manners has seen ...

A woman in her 70s is frustrated by service workers who patronize her with comments like calling her “Gorgeous” and “young ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Would you please ask everyone to avoid completing someone else’s sentence unless you’re a close friend of the speaker, understand the circumstances and know the context of what they ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I heard this anecdote in college and a couple of times in the years since then: An applicant goes to a job interview. There is a piece of crumpled paper on the floor of the ...

Miss Manners: I’ve never been pretty, so why are strangers calling me beautiful? Miss Manners: My husband objects to my discreet lotion use in restaurants Miss Manners: Would an American just call out ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: There was a 60-year member of our church who lived in our town all of her life, enjoying a 70-year marriage and raising four children here. In her 80s, she was widowed and lucky ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My dear mother told me that one should never clap for the speakers at Memorial Day observances, and that one should depart in silence to mark the solemnity of the occasion. At a ...

I was taught that women sit with their legs together, just crossed at the ankles. My daughter is trying to have her daughter not cross her legs, but she sees all those TV women sit that way. Miss ...