What should parents do when son sees locker room vaping?
-- Wondering
Dear Wondering: Gathering on the stoop to trade stories is a family tradition.
Playing soccer on the lawn is a family tradition.
Washing your hands before eating is simply something that every human lucky enough to have access to water and soap should at least attempt to do.
This is not about germy menus. Menus are the least of it. The average person has probably touched hundreds of items (including their own nose and mouth) between hand washings.
Yes, anyone washing their hands in a restaurant restroom will touch many things before actually eating -- but, in addition to cleaning the hands, hand washing also centers the mind. Hand washing helps to slow a person down before sitting at a communal table. It also punctuates and helps to fill that sometimes awkward time between ordering and receiving food.
You should try it.
Dear Amy: "Minding My Business" is a retired gentleman who wants to use his business-class lounge privileges during an overseas trip with another couple he says are too cheap to upgrade.
Must he sit with them in the crowded terminal? No. He could simply buy them a "day pass" to the lounge.
-- Frequent Traveler
Dear Traveler: According to "Minding My Business," his pals could readily afford this perk, themselves. He should definitely notify them of the opportunity to purchase temporary access to his airline's lounge. It would make a long layover much more pleasant.
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