Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
For several years, I have been in a prestigious club that helps children. In that time, I have been ridiculed about almost anything I do. I am talked about because my clothes, hair, eyebrows, etc., are a bit nicer than the other women’s. The men usually just sit and listen, but now some of them are joining in.
Once, a club member followed me into a restaurant where I was eating and made a pass at me. I refused and he retaliated, trying to get me in trouble with the board members. We have a no-phones rule at the dinner table, which I tell children when they visit. But at a recent dinner, an adult guest scrolled on her phone as soon as she finished cutting her meat and had two hands free. This continued through dessert and coffee, to the dismay of the other guests and myself.We know that you cannot correct your guests’ manners, right? So -- how do we do this?
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