I tried to talk about this character in what I hoped was a light way, he said, coldly and dismissively, “I don’t care what ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to politely declining unwanted help from a store ...

GENTLE READER: When you asked for time alone with the sample book, the polite thing for the clerk to have done would have been to grant it. So Miss Manners has no objection to your acting as if that ...