Miss Manners: Reader called dinner party guests for inappropriate touching

In retrospect, there were other possible responses Miss Manners might suggest. You may have exclaimed “That’s my leg!” in a voice just loud enough to make him nervously want to close you by pretending it was an accident – although that will take a bit of ingenuity on his part. (Perhaps he was trying, “Oh, sorry; I was trying to scratch my leg,” or “My mistake – I thought I was sitting next to my wife.”)