Episode 609 - Questioning Time Off

Awesome Etiquette

Daniel Post Senning

Society & Culture, Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Relationships

4.4 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On today’s show, we take your questions on whether wedding invitation addressing rules have changed over time, how to respond when people suggest plans but never follow through, and what to do when a coworker questions your upcoming time off. For Community Members, your bonus question is about how to share the news of your elopement with loved ones in a thoughtful way. Plus your weekly challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment with a primer on graduation etiquette. Jon the community - emilypost.substack.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Maybe it's just that you don't know how to use social courtesy.
0:09.0	Oh, that's old-fashioned.
0:12.0	Watch how Lizzie Post and Dan Post Center act as host and hostess.
0:18.0	They know that courtesy means showing respect, thinking of the other person,
0:23.1	real friendliness. Hello. And welcome to awesome etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette
0:30.6	through the lens of consideration, respect, and honesty. On today's show, we take your questions
0:35.8	on whether wedding invitation addressing
0:38.5	rules have changed over time. How to respond when people suggest plans, but then never follow
0:44.1	through. Oh, I am guilty of that. And what to do when a coworker questions your upcoming time off.
0:51.1	For community members, your bonus question of the week is about how to share
0:54.9	the news of your elopement with loved ones in a thoughtful way. Plus your weekly etiquette
0:59.9	challenge, etiquette salute, and a postscript segment with a timely primer on graduation etiquette.
1:05.8	All that's coming up.
1:10.3	Awesome etiquette comes to you from the studios of our home offices in Vermont and is proudly produced by the Emily Post Institute.
1:17.0	I'm Dan Post Senning.
1:18.3	And I'm Lizzie Post.
1:19.6	Cousin, it's great to be with you on this sunny morning.
1:22.5	We have a sunny first May Day.
1:24.3	I'm excited.
1:25.1	May Day, May Day, May Day, May Day.
1:27.4	It is, and it is delightful to be with you as well.
1:32.4	I wanted to surprise you with an intro topic and talk about one of your recent seminars that you
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