Implying that there’s more fun to be had elsewhere isn’t the only way you can botch your response to a social invitation.

Part of me also feels that you don’t get the courtesy of an invitation if you never show or if you repeatedly fail to RSVP.

Miss Manners assures you that the repeated offense of not answering an invitation justifies not getting another one. She further suggests you use caution with the excuse that they will not come anyway ...

Miss Manners assures you that the repeated offense of not answering an invitation justifies not getting another one. She ...

Miss Manners assures you that the repeated offense of not answering an invitation justifies not getting another one. She ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to if it is rude to stop inviting friends who never ...

In some cases, they RSVP “no,” but other times they do not reply at all ... to them that two people present didn’t get an invitation. Suddenly I felt like we did the wrong thing by not ...

In some cases, they RSVP “no,” but other times they do not reply at all ... to them that two people present didn’t get an invitation. Suddenly I felt like we did the wrong thing by not ...

"Part of me also feels that you don’t get the courtesy of an invitation if you never show or if you repeatedly fail to RSVP." ...

Yet people find all kinds of offensive ways to reply instead. The worst one of ... the only way you can botch your response to a social invitation. Being super vague about your plans—“Maybe ...