GENTLE READER: Miss Manners generally agrees with you, but worries that the social disease of being unwilling to participate in formalities is also dangerous. If you can gracefully finesse another gesture -- waving, or, in less formal situations, a fist bump -- Miss Manners will allow it.

Many people don't have good hand-washing practices, especially after using the restroom, and it grosses me out to have to touch their hands.

A cautious reader doesn’t like the idea of shaking hands with total strangers; a woman feels guilty for walking out of a musician friend’s performance before the last song.

Donald Trump and Mike Pence briefly greeted each other and shook hands at Jimmy Carter’s funeral service on Thursday.

Jimmy Carter was celebrated for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral today featuring the kind of pageantry the 39th U.

Today the nation said farewell to President Jimmy Carter. The 39th president of the United States died at age 100 on December 29, 2024. He was the longest-living U.S. president in our country’s history.