Miss Manners: Host accused me of ruining her beautifully set table
Dear Miss Manners: At a dinner party, the hostess had set a lovely table with flowers and candles. I complimented her on the ...
Asking Eric: My husband’s excessive manners have me feeling left behind
A wife is frustrated by her husband’s tendency to hold the door open for multiple people to walk through before him.
Miss Manners: I asked her to move the flower arrangement so I could see another guest ... she wasn’t pleased
She moved them, but muttered loud enough for everyone to hear that she had set a beautiful table and I was ruining the look.
Miss Manners: Hostess gets snippy when asked to move tall flowers blocking view of other diners
GENTLE READER: If your husband was suggesting you did anything wrong, Miss Manners will disagree. But perhaps he was merely ...
Miss Manners: How can we break up smaller groups, who only talk to each other, at our family holiday?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband and I have the pleasure of hosting an annual holiday dinner for our family, and we believe that ...
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Miss Manners: Should we make room at the table for our neighbor’s obnoxious guest?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My wife and I host an annual holiday dinner for a group of neighbors, one of whom has asked in the past if he could bring a guest. My wife, on our behalf, has always said yes.