Maybe it's just that you don't know how to use social courtesy.

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

Watch how Lizzie Post and

Dan Post Center act as host and hostess.

They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person,

real friendliness. Hello. And welcome to awesome etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette

through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty. On today's show, we take your questions

on nosy receptionists, taking responsibility for your own behavior, writing thank

you notes with an injured hand, and managing your social life when visiting home for the holidays.

All that plus a postscript segment on New Year's traditions from around the world coming up.

Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of Vermont Public Radio and is proud to be part of APM podcasts from American Public Media.

I'm Lizzie Post.

And I'm Dan Post Sending and we're from the Emily Post Institute.

And we just celebrated Christmas together because that's what our family celebrates.

We didn't.

But we haven't celebrated together because this is before and then the show show's coming after, and this will be fun to navigate.

But we've done this before.

We have done this before.

But we really love the Christmas holiday in our family, at least kind of most years, for me anyway, is like the post-family holiday, whereas I spend Thanksgiving with my mom's side.

How do you guys handle?

You guys kind of do both, both, right? Yeah, but sort of growing up for many years, it was the

post-family for Christmas. Yeah. Absolutely. And you could almost set your watch by some of those

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