I’m about to be a freshman in college, and I have a question about roommate etiquette. How does a courteous roommate typically deal with needing to wake up early in the morning without annoying a late-sleeping roommate? This question especially is applicable when living in a noisy dorm building. If a courteous roommate needs earplugs to fall asleep because there’s a party in the next room over, then needs an extra-loud alarm to wake up the next morning, is the other person just expected to deal with the extra noise? — Paige

Dear Annie: Last month, I took my grandkids to a water park. While I was watching the crowds, I noticed a man with a boy who looked to be around 12 years old crouched behind a picnic table. They looked as if they were waiting for someone to come by so they could jump up and startle the person. What I found odd was that the man kept pulling the boy into his lap, putting his arms all the way around the boy’s waist. The boy tried to pull away, but the man kept pulling him back. Then, the man leaned forward and gently kissed the boy on the back. The boy bolted. A little later, I saw the man, the boy and a woman in a pool where the boy was floating on an inner tube, and the man had his hand on the boy’s behind.