Dear lady manners: I am curious to know what the label is in a meeting when the music is touched in a friend’s house on the voice controlled device.
Is it okay for a guest to speak directly with the device to ask you to touch a song?
Soft reader: Many of us are still skeptical with the statements of the manufacturers that if we only pay the updates, tomorrow’s devices will be smarter than the most dimat. Until that happens, and domestic devices can say that they are more than objects: a good guest awaits the host’s permission before touching or talking to inanimate residents.
Dear lady manners: My husband and I are in our 50 years and we have a small business, as we have done for our adult and post-university life.
We are not rich, but we have maintained our business for many years and love it, and we are highly educated and intelligent people.
We have a nephew on my husband’s family who is between 20 and 20 years old and successful from the university, with a well -paid corporate work. Every time we see it, what does not live throughout the country, he directs the conversation to our business, constantly giving unsolicited advice on how we could build our business and bring more money.
We have never mentioned our business around them. I can only assume that he has heard some of the financial struggles we have suffered from his mother’s sister, as I know, he has shared some of this with her.
I was raised to never argue money around others, and certainly not to give advice to people 30 years old my old man. What is an educated way to let you know that we are interested in your opinions about our business?
Soft reader: The educated way is to thank you while it seems that you are not listening at all. The funny way is to thank him as he sounded a bit condescending.
Dear lady manners: I have used legs used for almost 30 years as administrator of a company that has and operates several retail centers, apartment complexes and office buildings.
I write many letters to the tenants, since I am the main point and sometimes the only point of contact.
Knowing that a tenant has lost his spouse, by addressing future letters, they should address both. And the lady or just the surviving spouse? I have approached letters in both directions and I have offended people to include or exclude the deceased spouse.
Soft reader: One can sympathize with the loss of a widow or widow and at the same time say that, as a bratter of both label and logic, it does not address a letter to some to some who died.
And, he thought he did not ask, Miss Manners will add two additional statements with equal confidence.
First, there is no rape of the label when directing a letter to some who died when you did not know that fact.
Second, the appropriate response to a surviving spouse who tells her otherwise is: “I am very sorry for his loss. We will do it, or of course, we will immediately correct our records.”
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