It's the reason people don't like etiquette.

It's the reason people have such negative opinions about it because there are people that wield it like a cudgel like that.

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

Oh, that's all fashion.

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.

On this episode of Awesome Etiquette, we'll answer your questions on plus ones, how to handle

a disingenuous date, whether or not to tattle to your TA, guests who don't like children, and when casual parties can create

anxiety. All that, plus a postscript segment on tips for hosting house guests and being a

good house guest 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 Sending from the Emily Post Institute.

Today's show has a...

What you got for us?

Something that you and I have been talking about for a couple weeks now.

Okay.

And it is implicit in a lot of what we do, but it's nice to get really explicit about it every once in a while.

And Lizzie and I have been wanting to do an acknowledgement and a great big thank you to all of the listeners out there that really make this show happen.

The origin, the genesis of this idea came from the fact that the volume of questions that we receive now has gotten to the point where Lizzie, who manages the awesome etiquette email inbox, gets so many that it's not necessarily possible to reply individually to every single one.

In fact, we've never been able to reply to everyone, and it started weighing on us.

It really did. And the idea that someone would send us a message, a note, a question for the show even,

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