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Awesome Etiquette

Episode #45: Train, in Pain

Awesome Etiquette

Daniel Post Senning

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Relationships, Kids & Family

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, Lizzie and Dan have advice for a 28-year-old woman who looks healthy, but suffers from chronic back pain and gets dirty looks and rude comments from fellow subway passengers who think she should give her seat up. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's going to happen. We're all going to send a text to the wrong person. In fact, a couple weeks ago, I sent the I'm going to be late to the podcast text to the wrong person.

0:07.7

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

0:11.3

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

0:15.0

Watch how Lizzie Post and Dan Post-Senic.

0:17.6

Act as host and hostess. They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person, real friendliness.

0:26.2

On this episode of Awesome Medicaid, questions about sneezes and bless yous.

0:31.2

Dealing with glares when you don't give up your seat.

0:33.7

Save the dates for adult-only weddings.

0:36.1

Handling rude wrong-number texts and juggling multiple birthday parties during a visit from Grandma and Grandpa.

0:42.4

All that, plus a postscript segment on Who Sits Where from the Rituals of Dinner coming up.

0:47.8

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.

0:56.1

I'm Lizzie Post.

0:57.1

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

1:00.4

Oh, my goodness.

1:01.7

It's summer.

1:02.7

Summer's really here.

1:03.9

It is summer, and I kind of love it.

1:06.0

I kind of love it.

1:07.7

Are you kidding me?

1:08.3

After the winter we had, I feel like you and I are both like, hail to the gods of weather.

1:13.8

I feel like we have a responsibility to acknowledge it every second that it's happening.

1:17.9

All the time. In that acknowledgement, I've been starting to think about my summer vacations. And I just got a baby announcement from a friend who had her baby back in, I believe it was March.

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