Miss Manners: What do I tell the restaurant staff when the ladies’ room is too gross to use?

I have very high standards for restrooms in restaurants. I will leave if they’re too gross. How do I express my disgust to ...

Miss Manners: Why are restaurant restrooms unclean so often?

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Miss Manners: Why does this keep happening to me in the ladies’ room?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: On occasion, my husband and I visit local restaurants. When I go to wash my hands in the ladies’ room, I ...

Miss Manners: What should this diner do when they find restaurant bathrooms ‘too dirty to use?’

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Miss Manners: If you’re so picky about restroom standards, you should probably stay home

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Miss Manners: One rude woman is ruining my grandmother’s get-togethers

Miss Manners hopes it is not to commit the unpardonable rudeness of calling out a guest’s rudeness to her face. (The guest’s face, that is. Once the guest is gone, you are free to try to convince your ...

Miss Manners: How can I get bus passengers to not take seats meant for disabled and elderly?

The bus drivers do nothing to enforce the rules, and we seniors are left trudging down the bus aisle while the people in the ...

Miss Manners: So, it’s not polite to say ‘you’re welcome’?

It is currently more polite to say “No problem” or “No worries,” which imply that whatever was done, the doer was happy to do ...

Miss Manners: What should I say to a woman who has defaced herself with a tattoo?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am still not inured to the rampant trend of women tattooing their hands, feet, arms, backs and even ...
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Miss Manners: When people who look ‘healthy’ and parents are sitting in handicap bus seats

GENTLE READER: It was another Gentle Reader who once came up with the polite way to handle this situation. The idea is to ...

Miss Manners: When did ‘you’re welcome’ become rude, and what’s the acceptable alternative?

Miss Manners has defended “No problem” and “No worries” from those who find them offensive, claiming that they suggest that a ...

Miss Manners: After 150 years of use, why are there no common manners used in elevators?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Elevators have been in existence, I believe, for more than 150 years, but there does not seem to be a system of accepted manners related to them.