Everyone should be so lucky to have a slice of homemade lemon cake offered to them in a moment of extreme embarrassment.

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 Postssonic.

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, questions about courses, cash bars, gym

schedules, being a guest in your parents' house, our very first voicemail from a listener,

and finally how not to let etiquette isolate you.

All that plus a postscript straight out of Emily Post's etiquette from 1922 coming up.

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

I'm Lizzie Post.

And I'm Dan Post Sening from the Emily Post Institute.

I will be put...

Okay, two things.

Let me just stutter while I start.

First of all, just a quick catch-up from last week's lateness debacle.

Dan figured out where the miscommunication was.

You want to tell them what happened?

Good for you for remembering. And Dr. Jesse Ripvo out there with my early morning text,

Lizzie. Hopefully this explains all. So always remember when you do send a text to someone

letting them know that you'll be late, that you send it to the right person. Noted, noted. But I wanted to

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