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Miss Manners: My neighbor, who will not be poor, thinks I’m her emergency pantry

Editorial Board Published September 4, 2025
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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’ve a neighbor who texts me on a reasonably common foundation, asking me for all types of various issues — often meals objects.

She will not be poor; she appears to exit a number of instances a day and has supply vehicles at her home day by day. I’m not certain why she will be able to’t make her personal grocery runs, as we dwell very near a number of shops.

If I reply that I don’t have no matter she is searching for, she often replies, “That’s OK, I found something else to use,” as whether it is my fault she doesn’t have one thing in her home.

It is vitally irritating, to say the least!

It is a neighbor who, when she is out of the home, is extra fascinated by her telephone than in speaking to my husband or me. I’ve blocked her prior to now, however am undecided that is the correct factor to do.

GENTLE READER: What she is doing solely works in case you are responding “in real time” — as one apparently says today — which isn’t but a requirement of being a very good neighbor.

In the event you take a very long time to reply to these texts, she is going to cease sending them.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I’m a university pupil who lives within the dormitories on campus.

The hallways are average-sized — about 5 ft vast — and are by no means crowded, although residents typically have conversations within the corridor.

Typically, two or extra folks might be leaning on reverse partitions, making it unimaginable to go across the dialog. I all the time stroll by way of the opening, which is vast sufficient to undergo with out coming in touch with both social gathering, and I say “excuse me” to each for interrupting them.

Is that this correct etiquette, or is there a extra well mannered strategy to go down the corridor?

GENTLE READER: Your resolution is correct. But it surely does depart Miss Manners racking her brains for some other attainable resolution that will not contain climbing gear or coming into nearer contact with the ground than is likely to be fascinating.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I used to be all the time taught that one’s bread plate is positioned to the left.

Every time I’m with a big group at a desk at a marriage (or one other perform), not less than one particular person all the time takes the bread plate to their proper. Their neighbors then comply with swimsuit, finally assembly the facet of the desk utilizing the left plate, leaving somebody with out one.

I often simply quietly go with out bread if I’m the stranded visitor, and I don’t actually get upset by it. However this looks like such a fundamental aspect of desk manners that I can’t consider so many individuals don’t understand it.

Are you able to please weigh in, only for public schooling, assuming I’m proper?

If diners are evenly spaced across the edges, then as soon as everybody has, incorrectly, grabbed the plate to the correct, the unused plate might be discovered to your proper. All that can then stay might be to clear house to the left to your plate — and seeing if there may be any butter left.

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