Man’s question about where to find an item in a grocery store is met with hostility

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• Judith Martin

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was shopping at a local grocery store, looking for Italian breadcrumbs. Searching the aisles, I couldn’t find them. I came upon a lady also obviously looking for something, and I innocently asked her if she’d seen the breadcrumbs.

Her response floored me. She said, “Why — because I’m a woman?”

My response was, “No, because I’m making meatloaf.”

I took a boys’ cooking class in ninth grade, and I have spent a lot of time in the kitchen during my 29-year career as a professional firefighter.

It doesn’t take much to insult people nowadays, does it?

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