Miss Manners: Fellow customer usurped my conversation with a local proprietor

18-07-2025

Dear Miss Manners: I need to know if I am justified in feeling miffed.
Let me set the scene: I was the second of three people waiting in line to pay for our purchases at a local shop in our small town. The proprietor was the cashier, known to all of us.

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