Dear Miss Manners,
Let's say someone passes gas. They say, "Excuse me." Do you say, "You are excused"? My wife does this … I find it strange.
Gentle Reader,
Miss Manners has something even stranger for you: Etiquette's way of dealing with things that shouldn't happen is to pretend that they didn't.
There was more detail, but that's not the point. The point is that I now have justification for pretending that certain things, people, and actions simply do not exist in my world. Etiquette demands it!
No comments:
Post a Comment