DEAR MISS MANNERS : I often have lunch at fast-food restaurants. I will get five or six packets of hot sauce from the self-serve area, and when I’m finished with lunch, I return the unopened packets to where I got them.

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Sometimes I get bad looks from people for doing this.

What is the etiquette for this? Should I just trash any unopened sauce packets?

GENTLE READER : Either solution is acceptable to etiquette, but this i

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