Plus: Isn’t it rude to browse the bookshelves in other people’s homes?
The hardworking employees who try to balance the number of people in the lines often ask me to go to the express line even if I have a few too many items.
But Miss Manners agrees with you that the benefit is not worth the personal abuse. It is yet another example of how everyone loses when often-incorrect snap judgments take the place of good manners. I refer to some of them regularly, as they are reference books. Others are old classics, some are books from my childhood, and one shelf is full of handwritten personal journals spanning the past 30 years.Is this appropriate behavior? I would not presume to help myself uninvited to the books in someone else’s home, especially personal journals, except perhaps to look through coffee table books displayed or opened on a table.
The handshake comes first, which Miss Manners assumes the president recognized too late — not that he was having second thoughts about the award.
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