Simple solution to friends’ excessive posts

Dear Miss Manners:I am very good friends with a couple that I absolutely adore. They both work in public safety and make a LOT of money doing what they do — so much so, that they travel frequently (four to five times per year).

Their trips aren’t short jaunts to local haunts, but rather allinclusive, weeks-long

trips to faraw ayf oreign lands, and each trip is documented online from the moment they make the reservations until the minute they return (“So exhausted! So glad to be home! So blessed!”).

With the advent of social media, it’s become second nature for people to share everything they do online, but when is enough enough?

How do I let them know that I’m happy for their financial success

and good fortune, but tired of their constant bragging? Gentle reader: Cease following them on social media. Dear Miss Manners:

There’s a man in my water aerobics class who always has dried nasal secretions hanging from

one or both nostrils. He has lived an interesting life and I enjoy speaking with him, but I can’t stand looking at his face.

If he had a handkerchief or washcloth and wiped his nose once in a while the problem would be solved. Is there any way that I can handle this that is both polite and kind?

Gentler eader: “Oh dear, these pools are so drying. Let us both go change and clean up before we continue our conversation.” Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners. com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail. com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.