When showing people around your house, and you come to a staircase, who goes first?
GENTLE READER: By “the shower,” Miss Manners assumes you mean “the one who is showing the house” and not “the plumbing stall that is curiously being pushed up the stairs.”
The old-fashioned rule was that a lady would precede the gentleman up the stairs in case she were to fall -- ensuring that he could then assist her. In this case, however, and no matter the gender, Miss Manners picks the shower to go first. This has the benefit of reducing the number of times one must say, “No, you want to go to your left at the top of the stairs. No, left!”
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