The article discusses two etiquette dilemmas submitted to Miss Manners. The first involves a passenger with hearing loss who was poked by a seatmate on an airplane. Miss Manners emphasizes the importance of maintaining composure and suggests responding assertively without escalating the situation. The second dilemma features a community volunteer whose comment about feeling tired was met with laughter rather than sympathy from peers. Miss Manners encourages understanding and respect for each other's feelings, particularly regarding health and aging.
Poking one's seat mate is not allowed, Miss Manners will agree. However, while she realizes how difficult it is on airplanes these days to locate space for all of one's body parts.
You are going to need to find space to put between your reasonable frustration with your seat mate's misbehavior and reacting with full-throttled fury.
Holding your arm, and not instantly complying, will make the point that attack is not the best way to obtain compliance.
Instead of expressing sympathy and open discussion about feeling tired, my friends laughed at the idea that I could be feeling tired.
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