Escaping Excessive Birthday Plans, Updating Professional References, Sharing Phone Chargers, and More

Were You Raised By Wolves?

Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema

Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about escaping excessive birthday plans, updating professional references, sharing phone chargers with guests, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)

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QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:

How do I just celebrate a friend's birthday instead of their birth month?
How can I let a professional reference know I didn't get the job?
How do I tell my friend I don't want to be her personal photographer on our vacation?
Do I have to share my phone charger with my guests if they forgot their own?
Aftermath: The Sinister Cilantro Stealer

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Nick. And it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, Leah, do you know about
0:04.3	Wolves Plus? I do, but let's pretend I don't for this for our audience. So Wolves Plus,
0:11.5	and we say it the French way, because it sounds fancier, is this new thing that we offer on Apple
0:16.1	podcasts. So you can get an ad-free version of our show that also helps support us.
0:21.3	And you can do that right now in the app.
0:23.4	So go find our show and click on Wolves Plus, if you want to be all American about it.
0:28.3	And check it out.
0:29.5	Wolves Plus.
0:30.5	Wolves Plus.
0:31.5	And now let's start the show.
0:36.5	Hey, everybody.
0:37.4	It's Nick Layton. And it's Leah Bonema. And we got so many great questions from you all in the wilderness.
0:42.1	Aoo!
0:44.8	That we have a bonus episode. So here we go. Our first question is, quote, I've offered to host a birthday party for a close friend of mine. I love hosting parties and I love my friend and I want to
0:55.1	make the day special for them. However, this person likes to celebrate their birthday for a full
1:00.3	month. Today is 30 days before their actual birthday and they sent out a group text
1:05.4	alerting all of us that it is officially their birthday season and asking us to prioritize a handful of hangouts.
1:12.4	In addition to the large party I'm hosting, they've asked me to participate in a costly
1:17.0	one-on-one excursion on their actual birthday that I'm not really into because it will be cold
1:22.3	and wet and in the middle of the night. They also like to celebrate their half-birthday,
1:27.4	which I think is a cute thing to do for children under 10, maybe, but this person is in their mid-30s, and I'm of the opinion that at a certain point you accept that you get just one birthday a year, make it special, and move on until next year. I feel that in order to really enjoy celebrating my friend and hosting from a place of generosity,
1:45.4	I will need to set some boundaries on just how much birthday I can take.
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