Miss Manners: How to handle a new guest who overtakes your birthday bowling game
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
Miss Manners: Dad’s girlfriend makes a scene at my bowling birthday party
Dad’s girlfriend showed up to the letter writer’s bowling birthday party and took over. Dear Miss Manners: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
Miss Manners: Dad's bully girlfriend bogarts the bowling lanes. How can we stop her next time?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
Miss Manners: I was shoved aside at my own birthday bowling bash
DEAR MISS MANNERS: For my 40th birthday, my sister planned a bowling party. She is very organized, and pre-entered the names of all 12 guests into the lanes (two lanes, six people at each).
Miss Manners: Dad’s new girlfriend ruins bowling birthday party
No one knew what to say or how to stop her, since we don’t really even know her, and no one wanted her to be uncomfortable.
Miss Manners: My father’s rude girlfriend shoved me aside at my own birthday party
At a bowling party for my 40th birthday, my dad brought his girlfriend. It didn’t take her long to try to take over the whole event to “show me how it’s done.”
Miss Manners: How does one politely and gently deal with being erased?
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Miss Manners: Was it an insult to be told at a bridal shower that I wasn’t invited to the wedding?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was invited to a shower for a friend’s daughter’s wedding. It was called a “suitcase” shower, meaning ...
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Miss Manners: Do I have to donate to my friend’s charity?
Dear Miss Manners: I have a good friend who is the polar opposite of me on politics, religion and almost every other subject. We are cognizant of these differences, and refrain from debate or ...
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Miss Manners: Is it wrong that my friend group always goes dutch?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a number of friends I regularly meet for meals out, as well as for friends’ birthdays. We’ve been friends for going on 40 years and first began socializing after ...
Miss Manners: Is it necessary to use special sympathy cards for condolences?
DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it considered necessary to write notes of sympathy about a death on cards specially designed for the ...
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Miss Manners: Longtime friends should celebrate the way they always have ... everyone pays their own way
DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a number of friends I regularly meet for meals out, as well as for friends’ birthdays. We’ve been friends for going on 40 years and first began socializing after ...