Your friends neglect to RSVP to your party invitation . . . co-workers munch their pungent meals near your office . . . pedestrians shout into their cell phones and practically knock you to the pavement.
Wishing that friends, family, colleagues, and oblivious strangers would mind their manners is lovely, but what about your own? You donβt mean to be rude, but in todayβs carefree, high-tech, fast-paced world, how are you supposed to know what to do?
Thankfully, Englishman Thomas Blaikieβs witty and insightful guide will help you steer through this minefield of uncertainty and back onto the path toward civilityβwithout a lot of fuss and bother. No need to worry about the proper way to eat soup or which is the salad fork. What Blaikie teaches you is more important: how and when to drop in on a friend, how to turn down suitors graciously, how to βmove onβ at a party, how to end a text-message conversation thatβs gone on just a bit too long, and how to cope with myriad other twenty-first-century social traumas. Always positive and cheerful, To the Manner Born offers commonsense, practical solutions. And if you donβt like someone elseβs manners, yes, you really should try to do something about itβin the nicest way possible, of course.
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