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 a

sniffling airplane seatmate,

strangers judging a child with a disability,

and friends hosting a dual wedding shower for their kids.

For community members, your question of the week is about automations and AI

and how they impact our social behavior.

Plus your etiquette salute and our first feedback postscript segment.

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 Senning. And I'm Lizzie Post.

And it's so good to be back with you, Lizzie Post. Welcome back from your big trip, your big little trip. It felt like a big little

trip. Do tell us, cousin. I think it's really fun to hear, especially when you get out of Vermont.

How was it? How did it all go? It was just awesome.

For those of you picking up today's show fresh, I was so fortunate to be surprised by my lovely

wife with travel plans to go to my 25th college reunion out in the city of Los Angeles at Pomona

College this last weekend. And it was an

opportunity to reconnect with people I hadn't seen in many, many years, but have been important,

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