DEAR MISS MANNERS: My housemate is male, 73 and retired. He rises in the morning and spends his day in a ratty terrycloth bathrobe. He is naked underneath, and the robe is barely closed.

I refuse to sit down at a table or engage with him looking like this. He says I’m weird and silly. I think he’s a pig. We’ve never been anything but casual friends, and while he has a crush on me, the feeling has never been mutual. Is it just me, or do others think this attire is disrespectful and disgusting?

GENTLE READER: Disgusting is in the eye of the beholder, and as you are the sole beholder, you do not need an aesthetic judgment from Miss Manners -- unpleasant as she found the description.

(Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com ; to her email, dearmis

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