Miss Manners: What’s the appropriate way to respond when someone asks, ‘What are you doing here?’

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Miss Manners: What’s the appropriate way to respond when someone asks, ‘What are you doing here?’
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This often happens when I run into friends, acquaintances or co-workers in the small city we live in.

What about when I’m talking about a cool venture that a friend from a different town is starting, only to hear, “I didn’t know you guys were friends”? Do I have to justify to people how we became friends and explain how often we talk? These remarks never sound curious, but accusatory.GENTLE READER: Do your friends truly think you need their permission to be out and about?

You know them best, but it seems unlikely -- which would make a sarcastic retort unprovoked as well as rude. The greatest threat to public civility used to be rudeness, but Miss Manners fears that taking offense when none is intended is catching up.

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