Advice | Miss Manners: Greeting a non-parent on Mother’s or Father’s Day

Dear Miss Manners: What is the proper greeting of a childless woman or man on Mother’s Day or Father’s Day?

Dear Miss Manners: I am a woman member of a mostly male international wine society, and I enjoy tweaking the men’s noses. I can’t and won’t deny it.

I’d very much like to buy some 18-button gloves, with the option to turn back the glove part. It would be delightful to turn to my table partner and ask him, in all sweet innocence, to help me unbutton the hand part of the glove.