What I am left thinking is, should I have been more visibly upset, even angry, that she had damaged one of my nicer jackets?

I’m concerned that she feels I have rejected her. I think someone owes her an explanation, but I’m not sure it’s me.

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 ...

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Dear Miss Manners: I’m a physician, so I am used to people addressing me as “Dr. Jones ... using your physician's given name. Or, slightly more tactfully, you could ask, “Shall we ...

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m a physician, so I am used to people addressing me as “Dr. Jones ... using your physician’s given name. Or, slightly more tactfully, you could ask, “Shall we ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Sometimes people enthusiastically tell me something they think I don’t know, particularly about my areas of expertise. Saying “I already knew that” sounds condescending. Pretending ...