DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am finding that whenever I go out to a social event, or even a restaurant, I am either being captured by ...

She volunteers at an organization helping the homeless and helps herself to some of the donations.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I volunteer for an organization that provides services for homeless people.

Can you suggest something I can say to discourage her from taking things meant to help our homeless community?

MISS MANNERS by Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin ...

GENTLE READER: A slightly more practical approach is to make it hard on the photographer.

GENTLE READER: You cannot decently accuse this person of stealing from the homeless -- which, Miss Manners realizes, is ...

I stayed long enough to complete my transaction and let him know that I would no longer do any business there.

In a large group chat, some of the letter writer’s friends brag about activities they do without the whole group.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am blind and have been since birth. Unlike some people I know, I don’t get offended if people ask me ...

Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; or ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a communication issue with my nieces and nephews, who are about to be college-age. They are the ...