Should this reader tell their friend that his overly casual dress is inappropriate sometimes?
At special occasions, the host couples have gone to great lengths to prepare a festive dinner on nice tableware. I feel his dress is insulting — not only to the host, but also to the honoree or the occasion/holiday itself. When we are dining at a restaurant — not an old-fashioned “coat and tie required” place, but still semi-upscale — he is again in shorts and a T-shirt, and I again feel embarrassed.In every other way, as I said, he’s a great guy. I wouldn’t want to hurt or insult him.
Miss Manners is afraid that you will have to learn to live with it. Clearly this gentleman's other half has.My son is getting married soon to a lady I’ve not yet met, although we have spoken on the phone several times. My issue is that I do not want my new daughter-in-law to call me “Mom.” My son was very briefly married once before , and that daughter-in-law called me “Mom” without an invitation to do so, at least not from me. I believe my son may have instructed her to do so. When we met, I said, “Hello, I'm Mabel Jo” so that she would understand I did not want her to have to address me formally as “Mrs. X.”How can I tactfully request that his new wife not call me “Mom?” It has nothing to do with her, I just don’t like the practice..
If he protests that he finds “Mom” to be more intimate, you may delicately point out that there were a lot of things that did not work the first time around. You are generously sparing him one of them.
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