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 Senate 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 restructuring the family gift exchange,

long-lost thank-you notes, not wanting people to text nose to large casual parties, ring around the baggage carousel and wearing earbuds at home around your partner.

Plus your most excellent feedback etiquette salute in a postscript segment on gifting, like all of it.

For awesome etiquette sustaining members, your extra question of the week is on gifting obligations with neighbors.

All that's coming up.

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.

I'm Lizzie Post.

And I'm Dan Post Sending.

Dan, I'm so hopped up on candy canes and sugar.

It's Christmas Eve, and you're back.

It's so good to see you.

I felt so detached last week.

Like, I even told someone, especially with our offices the way they are and stuff, I told somebody, I was like, I really, I feel like I have no routine, I have no grounding, I have no anything.

And then I was like, oh, Dan's gone.

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