Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your Problems Solved | 30 April 2005

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 30 April 2005

Dear Mary…

Q. Further to your letter regarding the telephone habits of foreigners, would they by any chance be Greek? Married for 20 years to a Greek, I am aware that no convention attaches at all to what we consider to be good manners. Calls will be placed and accepted at any place and any time without restraint on the length, volume or banality of the discussion.

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