Plus: I’m OK with laundering rocks but I draw the line at lip balm.
My husband and I, along with another couple, had just been seated in a restaurant. We were reading the menu when a woman and her husband passed our table on their way out.Miss Manners: It’s an amusing anecdote, but maybe I shouldn’t tell my friend?
I have imagined many retorts, like, “Then you must be glad you’re leaving” and “You’re so loud that I’m surprised anybody can hear themselves think.” But I said nothing. One of my friends said something like, “Then good riddance.” Had she been addressed more directly, Miss Manners would have responded “I beg your pardon?” with some hauteur, then pointedly returned to her menu.: Whose responsibility is it to empty pockets before pants go in the washer — the wearer, or the laundry-doer?
The issue comes when a pen or tube of lip balm goes through the wash and ends up leaking all over the rest of the clothes. Who’s dying now? Here’s how recent COVID deaths compare to the early months of the pandemic in California
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