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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 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 addressing a peculiar post-dinner party practice,

vaccine statuses, and planning parties, interrupting someone while

texting, and hosting guests from out of town when you're in the middle of a drought.

For awesome etiquette, sustaining members, our question of the week is about being left in the dark

after rescheduling wedding plans.

Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript on a new book called

Americanan.

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 Sending.

And I have to tell all of our awesome etiquette listeners about a very cool thing that happened.

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