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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 trash day

in the neighborhood, feeling obligated to take hand-me-downs, cleaning up after adult stepkids, and a wedding

budget bungled. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members, our question is about cranky customers

and how to handle them. Plus your most excellent feedback, Etiquette Salute, and a PostScript

segment on politeness as a tool. 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 Senning.

And I got a puppy.

You did not.

I knew you did, but I'm going to feign surprise.

That is so cool.

Yeah, no, it was kind of a surprise.

It wasn't a Christmas surprise.

I actually did adopt the dog before Christmas, but he came a few days before Christmas.

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