Passing Along Discounts, Letting Toilets Mellow, Avoiding Wearing Black Tie, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about passing along discounts, letting toilets mellow, avoiding requests to wear black tie, 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:
- If someone gives you money to purchase something and you receive a discount, should you pass along the savings?
- If a party has to be cancelled, do you have to let all guests know, even those who never RSVP'd?
- If a home has an obvious "if it's yellow, let it mellow" policy in the bathroom, is it rude to still flush?
- Is it OK to wear a dark suit to a destination wedding that's "Black Tie Requested"?
- Should we worry if we send in questions about people in our lives who might also listen to the show?
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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. And you can do that right now in the app. So go find our show and click on Wolves Plus, if you want to be all American about it. And check it out. Wolfs Plus. And now let's start the show. |
| 0:36.5 | Hey everybody. It's Nick Layton. |
| 0:38.2 | And it's Leah Bonema. |
| 0:39.4 | And we had so many of good questions from you all in the wilderness. |
| 0:42.4 | Aoo! |
| 0:45.4 | That we've a bonus episode. So here we go. |
| 0:48.0 | Our first question is, quote, |
| 0:49.8 | What do you do if you're picking up something for someone at a store and that person gives you the correct amount of money? |
| 0:56.3 | But you receive a discount that is only applicable to you, such as a veterans discount, student or senior discount? |
| 1:03.6 | Do you keep the extra money? Or do you pass it on to the person for whom you are shopping? |
| 1:09.3 | And does it matter how much the discount total is? This happened when I picked something up for my sister. I kept the money because we're sisters and I know she would do the same. I feel like this is one of those things where it's like I have no idea what it's like to have a sibling. Oh, you think this is a sibling thing? I do because I would never keep money for like a friend. You know what I mean? If I got the, I would give them the money back. And I wouldn't do it with like my parents. I would give them the money back. But I do think that siblings have a different relationship. Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. I mean, is a sibling relationship different? I mean, I would like to think that we just don't keep money no matter who it is. Because also, it's not that we're keeping money. It's that we're probably not telling the person that we got a discount, right? Oh, yeah, they're definitely not saying that we got a discount. That's really the piece. It'd be very funny to say, I got a discount because of my blank, but I'm going to keep that money. |
| 2:04.0 | Right. You would never do that. So then you're just like, oh, I just don't want to mention it. And then that, is that deceit? It's certainly an omission. This person might do that, though. They might be like, hey, I got this to discount because I'm a blank. And so I'm keeping that |
| 2:18.2 | money. That was my discount. Oh, that would be so bold. I mean, that's what, that's what I imagine sibling relationships are like. I mean, yeah, I guess if this was the relationship and our letter writer, it does sound like, oh, this is my relationship with my sister. Like, this would be what she would do. And so obviously, |
| 2:38.8 | turnabout as fair play. But I cannot imagine personally doing that. I would always give the money back and be like, hey, I got a discount. Yeah, because otherwise, it feels a little underhanded. |
| 2:43.1 | I mean, it feels like if we were sharing a hotel room, Leah, and I had some status with the hotel, |
| 2:50.4 | and we got free breakfast as part of the deal. |
| 2:53.0 | But I was like, oh, I'm just going to charge you for breakfast because like the hotel is like |
| 2:58.0 | covering breakfast for us, but like you don't know that. |
| 3:00.2 | And so I'm just going to charge you for breakfast. |
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