I was at an event recently when a woman I did not know asked, “So, you don’t really NEED that thing, do you? You just like having it, right?”
In today's column, Miss Manners advises a reader on how to handle the comments she gets about needing to use a walker.
I responded by telling her that I DO need the walker, then moved away from her. Some friends at the event were appalled at her questions. It’s challenging to go anywhere when you feel that people are staring at you, and even worse when you add in the possibility of a rude person asking for an explanation of your physical issues.A look of shock is all that is required. But if the questioning does not cease, Miss Manners suggests you say, “I gather you are asking because you are in need of one?” Perhaps this will quiet them into wondering, at least, why they are so impertinently interested.
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