And the Oh, I'm going to do you know Hello and welcome back to a final episode of Big Mood Little Mood.

I'm your host Danny M. Laverie and it's just me in the studio this week. I'm going to be reflecting briefly on what it's been like for the last eight years giving some advice in the slate

studios and then at the end of that there's a piece that I've written over the

last few years that in some ways sums up a sort of constellation of advice requiring situations that often tend to crop up together.

So I wrote a sort of helpful guide to someone in a very particular situation where you might be trying to

transition like you're opening a candy wrapper really slowly in a crowded movie theater.

The long and short of it is, my advice is that you shouldn't do that, but I go into a little bit more detail about what that looks like and why.

But in the meantime, this is my chance to reflect and sign off and thank you all immensely for staying with me throughout

the Dear Prudence and the Big Mood Little Mood Years. I have a number of

letters from people who've been listening for the whole time and that's pretty remarkable.

I remember when I started at Tier Prudence, I was in my 20s.

I was a lady.

I went and took a really professional headshot that I had to look at every week and

it's pretty remarkable to think of the changes that I myself have also gone through over the years.

It's been a strange beautiful ride and I've enjoyed almost every minute of it.

I had the chance to make a mark early in my tenure as dear prudence by establishing my belief that I don't think you need to bring a present when you go to a wedding, which is not without controversy and it's not even I'm not even sure that it's one that I want to stand by I just feel very strongly that if you go to someone's wedding

it's already expensive and that's present enough and if you get a gift beyond that good for you

but it was it was a lot to get thrown into, especially,

being like 27 years old and being asked,

well, what do you think about wedding etiquette,

which was not something that I had a lot of experience in.

And I think one of the things that's really interesting about being an advice columnist is by virtue of having the job you are charged with a certain degree of expertise that you don't necessarily have, but just because you have the job now, it sort of matters what you think about that kind of thing.

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