Miss Manners: So what if that’s your kid on stage? You need to stay in your seat.

We need major publicity to get across a matter of etiquette for concert and theater attendees: WAIT UNTIL THE CURTAIN CALL IS ...

Miss Manners: Since that incident, my neighbor has seemed chilly

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I live in a vintage three-flat condo building in Chicago. One recent morning at 6, I received a text from my downstairs neighbor that read, “Tell your niece or nephew to stop ...

Miss Manners: Old building, same old neighbor disputes

I live in a vintage three-flat condo building in Chicago. One recent morning at 6, I received a text from my downstairs ...

Miss Manners: How to deal with a neighbor’s lopsided noise standards

The neighbor downstairs complained about the one time a visiting toddler ran down the hallway, but does nothing to stop her ...
Harper's Magazine

Discretion Advised

But he was also aware of the violence and humiliation that an absence of discretion could invite. He maintained a certain ...

Miss Manners: I don’t want to start a condo Cold War, but neighbor’s noise complaint is just too rich

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I live in a vintage three-flat condo building in Chicago. One recent morning at 6, I received a text from ...

Miss Manners: Neighbor complains about toddler’s single moment of glee

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I live in a vintage three-flat condo building in Chicago. One recent morning at 6, I received a text from ...

Miss Manners: Toddler’s toe-tapping kicks off a cold war between neighbors, but who’s in the wrong?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I live in a vintage three-flat condo building in Chicago. One recent morning at 6, I received a text from ...
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Miss Manners: In our condo building, neighbor tries to shame me into silence

I don’t want a neighborly cold war, but I also don’t owe her an apology. How does one navigate such lopsided standards?

Miss Manners: I don’t owe my hypocritical neighbor an apology, do I?

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a Chicago condo resident who got an early morning ...

Miss Manners: My neighbor has double standards about noise and hallway clutter

A condo resident received an early morning complaint about her 2-year-old niece briefly running in the hallway, while the ...