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 disclosing that you're bilingual, traveling with lingering concerns over COVID-19, friends who lock you into plans, and asking out of towners to get a hotel instead of staying with you.

For awesome etiquette sustaining members, our question is about approaching your landlord without causing a conflict. Plus, your most

excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on going back to the movies. All that's coming up.

Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of our home offices in Vermont and is proud to be

produced by the Emily Post Institute.

I'm Lizzie Post.

And I'm Dan Post-Senting.

And because I know that you and I are on probably one of the most ambitious working deadlines we've ever been on.

Yes.

Working every night, which is very unusual for us. But our social lives at the same time, even with such work, are back.

Yeah, they're like back and filling up.

You were telling me about all kinds of stuff on our pre-call today.

And you've got a lot more people to be managing and considering than I do.

What's it like?

Like negotiating get-togethers and family

events and vacation times and housing rentals and things like that again.

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