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 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 hyphenating names on cards, paying for the plate you didn't eat at a wedding reception, tipping when you paid with a gift card, and sending a sympathy card late.

For awesome etiquette community members, our question is about letting someone know their hair is out of place before taking a photo.

Plus, your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute, and a postscript concluding our reading

from the cost of bad behavior.

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 Dan Post Sending. And I'm Lizzie Post. And you're getting ready to go on vacation.

I sure am, but it is so good to be with you this fine morning. It is nice to be with you as well.

It's kind of a thunderstormy morning, but I'm not opposed. This fine, gray stormy morning, yes.

The summer that wasn't, as we've been calling.

I've had great summer days, so I don't feel like that's totally fair, but I know up here

it's been like really hard.

I'm going to go ahead and accept that.

You talking about summer in the past tense.

As soon as you're doing back to school shopping, that is officially okay.

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