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 someone who gives away your gifts, excessive

DJing at a dinner party, and stopping gossip before it starts. For community members, your

question of the week is about ordering dinner family style. Plus, your weekly challenge,

etiquette salute, and a postscript segment on thanking people for gifts.

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.

I'm Lizzie Post and happy almost to be here. Yeah, I'm Lizzie Post, and happy almost new here.

Yeah, exactly.

Lizzie Post, it is good to be with you in this wind down from the holidays that we are imagining

ourselves in right now.

Yes, yes, we are recording a week early, so we haven't quite been through the holiday we celebrate, which is

Christmas, but joining you all looking forward to a very happy New Year's Eve.

Indeed. Indeed. And it is a sort of special, liminal space that time between Christmas and

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