It was obvious that the remaining eight of them had arrived early, for there were empty glasses and picked-over appetizers.

Soon it was dinner time. We were all hungry as it was quite a long drive to the mansion and suddenly my friend took out her phone and said, “Okay I’ll be ordering food and drinks from a nearby ...

A woman wrote on Reddit that her friends pressured her into ordering a drink at a 21st birthday celebration. The woman said ...

When the day of our dinner date came up, my wife and I were so miserable that we had to cancel. We were burned out, and it ...

We have friends who are perfectly capable of talking ... all that if they then talked about something else during dinner. But they don’t. Part of it is critiquing the food we’re eating ...

An anonymous user has turned to Reddit for support after a birthday dinner left them questioning their actions. A group of friends gathered to celebrate a birthday, with some individuals ordering ...

Long after the dinner party in question, a reader still feels self-conscious about jabs exchanged every time she opened her mouth. By Philip Galanes Some friends of ours get together monthly for ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: My brother and I celebrated the birthday of a close friend with several others. The dinner was at a local restaurant, beginning at 5 p.m. (stated time). We had difficulty ...