Miss Manners: What’s the polite way to get to your seat when you have to pass several people?

I always thought that you should face the people you are passing (showing your prettier side), but a lot of people turn their backs.

Miss Manners: I wasn’t invited to the party, but I got the sales pitch

Am I out of line to have taken this as a breach of etiquette? Is this mixing of personal and commercial now proper?

Dear Abby: One woman at our lunch table spoils meals for the rest of us

I live in an independent retirement home. There is a lady who sits at our table at lunch. If someone asks a question, before ...