Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.
: Fifteen minutes after arriving at an informal family get-together at someone’s home, a relative took a phone call. She stepped out of the room where everyone was gathered and could be heard down the hall talking for the next 45 minutes.
But if the urgency turns out to be, say, what to name the new pet rabbit, the call should be postponed in favor of talking to those who are present.: I will soon be attending my 50th law school reunion. I expect that, at least once, I will be in the company of a certain married couple, as both people were law school classmates of mine.
: No. Miss Manners supposes the charm that this couple is still so in love -- or at least eager to counter divorce rumors -- after decades of marriage is lost on you. I accepted a package for them once, and it was a thankless task trying to get them to retrieve it. Now I don’t answer my buzzer, but I worry that one day, someone ringing it might actually want me.
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