Somewhere between the elevator and the first cup of lobby coffee, every traveler joins a temporary society: the hotel breakfast buffet, where strangers in various stages of consciousness negotiate shared…
Every summer weekend, a few hundred strangers in swimsuits share a strip of sand with no assigned seats, no referee, and one lifeguard whose jurisdiction ends at the waterline —…
A wedding invitation looks like a request for your company, but every couple, and every planner, knows it's really a small test of character, graded on a code of conduct…
Staying in someone's home is one of travel's great bargains and great privileges, and the guests who get invited back all seem to follow the same code, a set of…
In 1960, raising a polite, well-mannered child was a top priority for American families, and a whole code of etiquette was taught from the earliest age. Many of these rules…