Episode #220: Soup Spoon Sipping

Awesome Etiquette

Daniel Post Senning

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Relationships, Kids & Family

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On today’s show Lizzie and Dan take your questions on sipping from soupspoons, getting a gift for a friend’s generosity, a reflection about being asked to host a baby shower last minute and how to handle receiving holiday cards for a deceased parent. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and postscript segment on holiday invitation etiquette. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members your extra question of the week is about asking friends about wedding plans without fishing for an invitation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The five pound meal deal from McDonald's.
0:02.0	Get a cheeseburger or mayo chicken, medium fries, four McNuggets and a medium soft drink for guess what?
0:08.0	That's right, five pounds.
0:10.0	It's not called the five pound meal deal for nothing.
0:14.0	From 11 AM, not available on delivery.
0:16.0	Carbonated soft drink upgrade fees apply.
0:18.0	Participating restaurants, subject's availability.
0:29.3	Maybe it's just that you don't know how to use social courtesy.
0:31.4	Oh, that's all fashion.
0:36.2	Watch how busy post and damn post senate.
0:38.3	Act as host and hostess. They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person, real friendliness.
0:44.3	Hello!
0:46.3	And welcome to awesome etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty.
0:52.3	On today's show, we take your questions on sipping from soup spoons, getting a gift for a friend's generosity,
0:58.4	a reflection about being asked to host a baby shower last minute and how to handle receiving
1:03.1	holiday cards for a deceased parent.
1:05.4	Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on holiday
1:10.1	invitation etiquette. For awesome etiquette sustaining members who are postscript segment on holiday invitation etiquette.
1:11.6	For Awesome Etiquette, sustaining members who are extra question of the week is about asking friends about wedding plans without fishing for an invitation.
1:19.3	All that's coming up.
1:23.2	Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of Vermont Public Radio and is proud to be produced in Burlington, Vermont by the Emily Post Institute.
1:30.7	I'm Lizzie Post.
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