I picked up Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior at a used book sale. It was published in 1979, and has probably been revised many times since then.
Just wanted to share a few paragraphs that will bring you back to the days before cellphones and the Internet. Enjoy!
"It is always the object of the person being called to avoid the call. But while he or she may use fierce people and treacherous machinery to put off the caller, it is not considered fair for the callee actually to be out of the range of a telephone. By leaving numbers everywhere, carrying a beeper, and installing telephones in all vacation house landscapes, one is considered to be giving the caller a sporting change."
"Miss Manners has always thought all this a dreadful nuisance, and has remarked how much more quickly and efficiently business would be accomplished is people wrote and answered letters, instead of papering one another's offices with telephone messages. However, many people seem to enjoy this pastime more than working . . ."
Boy oh boy . . . how things have changed!
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