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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: I keep needing the loo during formal dinner parties – help!

3 February 2018

9:00 AM

3 February 2018

9:00 AM

Q. My wife and I have been invited to a small but formal dinner in the presence of some impressive fellow guests. I don’t want to disappoint her but I have developed a neurosis in situations where, if it would be a breach of etiquette to leave the table to go to the loo, I need to urinate frequently.

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