Mistaking Customers for Employees, Forgetting Previous Introductions, Washing Dishes Before Returning, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about mistaking customers for store employees, forgetting you've been introduced before, washing dishes before returning them, 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:
- What do I do about strangers in stores mistakenly thinking I'm an employee and asking for help?
- What do I do about a parent who asked me to sign a pre-written recommendation letter for her daughter?
- What's the best way to follow-up with non-responders to an electronic dinner party invitation?
- Do I have to accommodate a vegan guest who is not always vegan?
- How do I deal with someone who always forgets we've been introduced before?
- Should you wash a dish before returning it?
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Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Nick. |
| 0:00.9 | And it's Leah. |
| 0:01.9 | Real quick thing before we get going. |
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| 0:47.0 | Come moon howl. |
| 0:51.1 | Hey, everybody. It's Nick Layton. And I'm Leah Bonima. |
| 0:53.6 | And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. Aoo! That we have a bonus episode. So here we go. Our first question is, quote, For as long as I can remember, people have been coming up to me when I'm shopping and ask me questions about the store we're in, because they always assume I work there. |
| 1:11.3 | I have never worked there. Sometimes they ask if I work there first, but most of the time, |
| 1:16.2 | they just rudely start talking at me. Last week, there was a particularly rude person at an |
| 1:21.4 | outdoorsy store. I just tried on some coats and went to return them, when I hear, |
| 1:26.2 | What's your return policy, being shouted. |
| 1:29.1 | When she repeats herself even louder, I turn around and she's staring at me. I said, I don't work |
| 1:34.7 | here. And her reply is, you look like you do. And I said, no, I don't. And I walked away. First of all, |
| 1:43.5 | the uniform for this store seemed casual, jeans, |
| 1:46.3 | shirt, vest, and a lanyard with the store name on it. I was wearing a long, floral, |
| 1:51.6 | caftan, and definitely didn't have a lanyard on. I don't know why this makes me so annoyed, |
| 1:56.8 | but it does. Whenever I need an employee's help at a store and I'm not 110% sure that they work there, |
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