"Your second friend was just being rude, and the proper way to acknowledge that is to make your apology perfunctory. But are we so sure your friend with the emoji was not trying to be funny?"
"Miss Manners suspects he did not really expect you to remember his having turned down an invitation to the original Dune, which came out 40 years ago."
"In my grandparents' home, no food was allowed to go to waste. After a meal, if there was any food left on someone's plate, it would either be claimed by someone else or added to the soup pot that was always on the stove."
Collection
[
|
...
]