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 workplace gossip, nosy questions about a baby,

and bringing food to a restaurant. For community members, your question of the week is about

uninvited pets at a host's home. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript

segment on cheeking or not.

All that's coming up.

Awesome, etiquette comes to you from the studios of our home offices in Vermont and is proudly produced by the Emily Post Institute.

I'm Dan Post Sending.

And I'm Lizzie Post. Hey, cousin. Good morning, Lizzie Post.

I have weddings so on the brain as I am wrapping up the comments to our editor and making sure

that everything is ship-shaped to send Kimmy back all of our developmental edits on the wedding etiquette

book. But it reminded me of two

big wedding things that I thought might make for fun intro today. And one is that during our

train the trainer, we managed to have a wedding take place. And it was very unexpected. Oh my. It was so fun.

And it was in the rain, but our, our Van Ness room of the

lovely Hotel Vermont has a terrace on it, and that terrace is open to the public during the

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