The article discusses etiquette around guest behavior, particularly addressing bathroom habits and gift-giving. Miss Manners advises the reader to ignore the guest's habit of leaving the toilet seat up and to refrain from installing a sign in the bathroom. Instead, if they must address it, a humorous approach might be to blame their hypothetical cat. Additionally, the article touches on receiving gifts like unmarked bottles of wine from neighbors, emphasizing the importance of discretion and maintaining good relationships over awkwardness regarding unreciprocated preferences.
Miss Manners suggests that you do your best to ignore your guests' bathroom habits and resist putting up that sign. People have all sorts of private behaviors.
If you absolutely cannot control yourself, however, next time it happens, she will permit you to turn to your husband in front of the guest and in a loud stage whisper, say, I'm afraid the cat was drinking out of the toilet again.
As a thank you, they always give us a bottle of wine. The bottles have no sleeves or any other identifying marks on them. We don't drink wine.
It would be rude for me to mention it. It's best to address bathroom habits with discretion and sensitivity.
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