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

Oh, that's old-fashioned.

Watch how Lizzie Post and...

...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 wedding rehearsal lunch snub, when to

reply all on an email chain, and not bringing a towel to a pool play date. For community members,

your question of the week is about how to get a lone time at a very social dude ranch.

Plus, your weekly etiquette challenge, etiquette salute, and a post script

segment where I get to interview one of our business etiquette trainers, Dr. Angela Wilson.

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. Lizzie Post, it is so good to be here with you

on an unusual Saturday morning. I know. And we had kind of one of those unusual weeks where you

were gone most of the week. I had my foot procedure this week and got to

sort of take a break. We managed to have eight media requests come in this week when we, like,

they don't usually- Hapsby holidays. Yeah, no, it was like, who, here we go. Some of you may have

caught me on KQED yesterday, which was a really fun segment. I believe there's going to be some recorded

versions if anyone wants to look around. But we were talking about digital ghosting or just

ghosting in general. And it was a fascinating conversation. They had an author of a ghosting book

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