Removing Shoes at Weddings, Opening Neighbors' Mail, Being Empty-Handed at Potlucks, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about removing your shoes at wedding receptions, accidentally opening neighbors' mail, showing up empty handed to potlucks, 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's the time limit for letting a friend know it wasn't appreciated that she showed up empty-handed to a potluck picnic?
- What's the etiquette for telling someone they look like someone else?
- I accidentally opened a piece of my neighbor's mail...what should I do?
- At a wedding, is it OK to take your heels off on the dance floor?
- Am I wrong to be upset at a houseguest who ruined some of my clothing and then called me fat?
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Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
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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. Wolves Plus. Wolves Plus. And now let's start the show. Hey, everybody. It's Nick Layton. |
| 0:38.3 | And I'm Leah Bonama. |
| 0:39.3 | And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. |
| 0:41.3 | Aoo! |
| 0:42.3 | That we have a bonus episode. So here we go. |
| 0:46.3 | Our first question is, quote, I recently hosted a picnic dinner wedding shower for a friend with a group of 11 women. |
| 0:53.3 | All of us are over 60. One of the guests |
| 0:56.2 | had committed to bringing a side dish, but showed up empty-handed. Before the event, I had several |
| 1:01.6 | conversations with her about her dish and how it would go so nicely with the rest of the food, |
| 1:06.3 | so there was not a misunderstanding. All she said as we were arriving was, they were a flop. She did not text |
| 1:12.4 | me, call me, or offer to at least bring a loaf of bread. Thankfully, there was plenty of other food, |
| 1:17.6 | all of which I made and carried to the park. I said nothing because I didn't want to spoil the |
| 1:22.1 | mood with everyone there, but now I wonder, what should I have said? I was very annoyed. Also, what is the time limit on |
| 1:29.4 | addressing this? It's been 10 days. I think that our letter writer was very gracious. And it was |
| 1:35.2 | appropriate not to have said anything just because it's a wedding shower. Yeah. You don't want to |
| 1:40.0 | make a big deal about this in the moment and kind of, yeah, I could see that instinct. |
| 1:44.6 | And I think that was probably correct. |
| 1:46.5 | I think it was very lovely of you to take the high road because you could have given her a really |
| 1:50.0 | nasty side eye and you just were above and beyond gracious. |
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