Handling Mothers-In-Law, Disobeying Gift Instructions, Exiting Gracefully, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this bonus episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about replying to voicemails with text messages, handling mother-in-laws who don't respect your wishes, making graceful exits, 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:
- Can you reply to a voicemail with a text message?
- What do you do about a mother-in-law who refuses to accept you haven't taken your husband's last name?
- What snacks do you have to offer your guests?
- Are you allowed to ignore a host's instructions about what gifts to buy for a baby shower?
- How do you make a graceful exit when your host won't stop talking?
- Vent: A Christmas dinner gone horribly wrong
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- "Goodnight Moon" and the New York Public Library
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CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there's Nick and it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, please |
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| 0:11.2 | or a little bell or it says subscribe. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, tap that please. |
| 0:15.4 | Just a quick little and it makes such a big difference for us. |
| 0:18.4 | We would really appreciate it. |
| 0:20.1 | We really would. |
| 0:20.7 | So please do that and thank you. Thank you. And now let's start the show. |
| 0:24.7 | Yay! |
| 0:25.9 | Everybody it's Nick Leighton and I'm Leobonema. |
| 0:31.9 | And we had so many great questions from you guys in the wilderness. |
| 0:34.0 | Aoo! |
| 0:36.0 | That we have a bonus episode. |
| 0:37.0 | So let's just get right down to it. |
| 0:38.0 | Let's get in it. |
| 0:39.0 | These are great questions. |
| 0:40.0 | These are good ones. |
| 0:41.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.0 | So for our first question, quote, if you miss someone's call and get a voicemail, |
| 0:46.0 | is it rude to answer their question via text? Specifically, I just dropped off a welcome basket to some new neighbors who then called to say thank you. |
| 0:54.7 | Do I need to acknowledge their voicemail at all? |
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