Miss Manners: Strangers keep calling me beautiful and I find it unnerving
A reader in her 80s writes to Miss Manners because strangers frequently tell her she’s beautiful in public, and she finds the attention unsettling.
DEAR MISS MANNERS: The oddest thing started happening to me when I reached my 80s: Strangers began approaching me to tell me how beautiful I am. It continues regularly at the supermarket, at restaurants or on the bus.