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

Oh, that's all-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 forgetful

relatives, showing gratitude for a recommendation,

keeping a party secret, and asking to buy someone's home.

Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment from Twitter

on embarrassing situations.

For awesome etiquette sustaining members, your extra question of the week is about

birthday party clipboard RSVPs.

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-Sening.

And we have another book announcement.

Oh, do we now? What's going on? We've talked about this one before. My friend Kelly Williams

Brown and I are going to be co-authoring a book together for Audible. Kelly Williams Brown is the author of the

bestselling book, Adulting, and her follow-up book,

Gracious, and she has another in the works. But in the meantime, she and I have partnered up for

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