Someone should teach generation Z how to make a toast

Dear Miss Manners: Can you please publish a few short words on the presentation of an appropriate toast?

Among the millennials and generation Z, the word “acclamations” has become both a name and a verb. I heard “have applause” and “can we make an acclamation?” Watching young people do this, for example, on reality TV, is worthy of worthy of Division.

To celebrate, “Cheers” should be an exclamation: “I would like to offer a toast: here is to teach young people the ways and the label.” Then everyone lifts a drink and exclaims: “Cracks!”

Mild player: Although it is always ready for a good grammatical fight, Miss Manners always considers that it is a fairly minor offense. If you remove the “S”, “Cheers” becomes “Cheer”, which is both a name and a verb. She suggests claiming that she does not hear the “S” to save your teeth.

That young people engage in all formalities and celebrate each other are laudable. To this, she will offer her own favorite toast: the Italian “fifty”.

Dear Miss Manners: I was in my office when I wanted to go to the bathroom.

I hate doing this at work, because I work in a converted town house where the bathrooms are just a toilet and a sink, as in a house. But I had no choice.

I was sitting there when I heard my boss in front of the door: “Kaitlin, are you in there?”

“Yes. Why do you ask?”

“Mr. Warren is on the phone.” (Well, obviously I could not speak to a client of that position. Imagine if I had to get up to check my office calendar!)

“Please ask the gentleman to recall.”

“How long are you going to stay in there?”

“Difficult to say.”

Then a colleague passed and started talking to our boss, still standing in front of the door. It was like a staff meeting, except that I had other things to do. I just prayed so that they did not hear anything.

What should I do about it?

Mild player: Find a more attentive and discreet boss.

Unless that, Miss Manners suggests that in weeks when everyone has forgotten this particular incident, you leave during a meeting:

“Just a little reminder. Since we are in fairly close neighborhoods here, I would say that if we are indisposed and in the bathroom, we do not engage in business. »»

Dear Miss Manners: I carry my whole weight in my belly. Since I was 18 years old, I had to face the people who asked me when I am due or if it is a boy or a girl. It always makes me feel big and without attractive.

I always tell them that I am not pregnant, just pregnancy. Then they are terribly embarrassed, and I find myself managing their emotions and trying to do them Feel better.

What can I say instead?

Soft reader: Just a tight lip, “is WHO A boy or a girl?

Self-depreciation is not necessary. Miss Manners does not assure you either, thoughtless foreigners do not feel better.

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