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

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

Watch how Lizzie Post and Dampost Center 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 feeling excluded from conversations, service

charges at restaurants, RSVPing for a wedding before getting

a formal invite, and declining to give tours of your home.

For awesome etiquette community members, our question of the week is about asking your

co-workers not to play explicit songs at work.

Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript straight out of

Laura Clarege's biography on Emily Post that focuses on Emily's wedding day, and it was a hot one.

All that's coming up.

Awesome etiquette comes to you from our very hot studios in our home offices in Vermont and is proud to be produced by the Emily Post Institute.

I'm Lizzie Post.

And I'm Dan Post Sending.

And I really should have said I feel like I am a puddle.

I am like I am just sweating. I am so

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