Dear Queenie,
I work in a restaurant and part of my job is to fill the customers’ water glasses, but lots of them leave their smart phones on the table where water might drip or spill on their phone.
Queenie, please advise your readers to be more careful with their phones.—Worried waitress
Dear Waitress,
Here is the warning you have requested. But until your customers become less careless, you must be very, very careful.
Dear Queenie,
When I retired from working I stopped shaving every day. Now I only shave when I go out for some social event.
My problem is my wife thinks the way I look reflects my feelings for her and she is vexed with me about it.
Queenie, I love her very much. How can I make her feel better about this?—Shaggy husband
Dear Shaggy husband,
Shave every day.
Dear Queenie,
When my mother took me and my girlfriend out to dinner, the two of us got kind of affectionate while we were waiting to be served and my mother got upset because she thought we were behaving badly in public.
Queenie, did we really do something wrong?—Etty Ket
Dear Etty Ket,
That depends on just how “affectionately” you were behaving. If your mother was embarrassed, yes, you went too far.
Dear Queenie,
I’m in high school and I have good grades, but I don’t feel like I’m good enough for anything and I’m sad all the time.
I don’t want to talk to my family about it because they’ll just think I get offended too easily and feel sorry for me.
Queenie, can you give me some help?—Depressed teenager
Dear Teenager,
You should be able to talk to your parents about how you feel, but if you cannot, talk to some other adult relative you can trust, or to a teacher or school counsellor you trust, or perhaps your family doctor.
Thank you for trusting me enough to ask for my advice. Please follow it as soon as you can.
Dear Queenie,
Whenever we are going somewhere, my wife is always late getting ready to go.
Queenie, how can I get her to be on time?—Another frustrated husband
Dear Husband,
Ask her whether she really wants to go, and if necessary, go without her and let her find her own way to get there if she really wants to go.
