I love this question because it actually gets at a thing that you and I do all the time.

But this is for a different reason, so I love it.

Yes.

Okay.

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

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

Watch how Lizzie Post and Damp Post Center.

Act as host and hostess.

They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person, real friendliness. On this episode of Awesome Etiquette, we hear from our listeners asking about table manners when dining alone.

How to prepare for comments about weight gain?

How to handle others trying to predict what you're going to say,

a few questions from an Australian teaching in Japan, and what constitutes a failure in introductions.

All that. And in our postscript segment, we open up the awesome etiquette mailbag.

Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of Vermont Public Radio and is proud to be part of the Infinite Guest Network from

American Public Media. I'm Lizzie Post. And I'm Dan Post Sending from the Emily Post Institute.

I've been playing so much golf. That doesn't really sound good. But first of all, I'm excited

because this week I am playing last night, today, tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I don't know whether to be happy for you or kind of insane with jealousy.

Or creeped out.

I'm also really excited because for the first time this year since my parents came back from Florida,

I got to play golf with my dad on Sunday.

It was awesome.

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