DEAR MISS MANNERS: I have a very close friend I have known for a long time. I enjoy seeing her and her husband. However, whenever we go out to dinner, she always tells me to make the restaurant reservation, as supposedly I know all the places to go to.

Once we are at the restaurant, she always complains about the food. Last time, there were not enough capers in the sauce and it had no flavor. At a fine steak restaurant, she returned four items: the coffee, the salad dressing, the steak that was undercooked (and then overcooked, when it came back), and finally the ice cream!

We once went to breakfast, and she returned scrambled eggs.

It is so upsetting to me. I can understand if something is truly not good, but these are fine restaurants and they are just doing their typical service. I

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