In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to someone whose hearing loss ended with someone calling the reader rude.

However, my hearing is sometimes affected by things like seasonal allergies, and I’m often the last to realize. I was talking with some friends, partly in Spanish (my second language) and partly in English,

I would never have interrupted him if I had heard him. She continued to tell me she felt bad for him and that I was rude.