Think of a breakfast muffin with sausage and egg.

Yep, that's the one.

You can see it, can't you?

Deep in your mind.

Sausage, egg, cheese, muffin.

I don't even need to say its name, do I?

Breakfast, done properly.

Served until 11 a.m.

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

Oh, that's all fashion.

Watch how busy 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 overly

attentive wait staff, inviting new couples to dinner parties, not feeling like you can ask for help,

and salad knives on the table. For awesome etiquette sustaining members, our question of the week

is about getting cash and condolence cards and how to reply.

Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript from Margaret Vissar's The Rituals of Dinner on Dining Together.

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.

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