DEAR MISS MANNERS: My spouse and I are friends with a couple, one of whom is in a band.. This band put on a show at a restaurant, and we went to show support. We arrived prior to the start of the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is there a polite way to avoid shaking hands with strangers? I was in a car dealership, and every employee I encountered extended a hand to me, expecting me to shake it.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is there a polite way to avoid shaking hands with strangers? I was in a car dealership, and every employee I encountered extended a hand to me, expecting me to shake it.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is there a polite way to avoid shaking hands with strangers? I was in a car dealership, and every employee I encountered extended a hand to me, expecting me to shake it.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is there a polite way to avoid shaking hands with strangers? I was in a car dealership, and every employee I encountered extended a hand to me, expecting me to shake it.

Miss Manners: I got shushed for ... the room promptly “shh’d” me with a stern look and a finger to her ... that they are hard to shake when you find them tiresome. Miss Manners realizes her ...

Miss Manners: Should I have stood up to shake his hand? Published: Jul. 15, 2024, 3:00 p.m. In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a young woman wondering the ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If we renewed the lovely fashion of wearing gloves, people wouldn’t have to fear catching germs from shaking hands or appearing rude for refusing.

People wouldn’t have to fear catching germs from shaking hands or appearing rude for refusing. ... Miss Manners: Let’s make gloves fashionable again - and stop the bare handshakes.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: If we renewed the lovely fashion of wearing gloves, people wouldn’t have to fear catching germs from shaking hands or appearing rude for refusing.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: While outside in the smoking area of a music venue a couple weeks ago, a woman next to me became a little too animated and lightly bumped into me. She apologized, and I politely ...