Saying "You're Welcome" Unprompted, Cleaning up After Squirrels, Asking Wedding Guests to Bring Ice, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about saying "you're welcome" unprompted, cleaning up after squirrels, asking wedding guests to bring ice, 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 get my parents to tip servers more than 10%?
- Is it rude to say "you're welcome" to a person who didn't say "thank you" first?
- What do I write in a thank you note to a comic I hired who bombed and offended people?
- Should I clean up the mess a squirrel made on a neighbor's balcony?
- Etiquette Crime Report: Asking wedding guests to bring appetizers, ice, and liquor
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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. |
| 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 Bonima. And we had so many great questions from you all in the wilderness. |
| 0:42.1 | Aoo! |
| 0:44.9 | That we've a bonus episode. So here we go. Our first question is, quote, |
| 0:49.7 | Help! My parents tip like their poppers. My parents took me out to a well-known chain restaurant to celebrate my new job. |
| 0:57.7 | And they insisted on paying. And I was mortified when I realized that they only tipped 10%. I tracked down the server and gave him another 10% with a profuse apology about the pittance of a tip that my parents left. My parents aren't |
| 1:12.8 | rich, but they can definitely afford more than a 10% tip. My mother is extremely sensitive and will |
| 1:18.6 | cry at the drop of a hat if she thinks she's somehow offended someone, anyone. And my father |
| 1:24.5 | thinks that any feedback is a threat to his very existence and usually digs his heels into his position, regardless of how unreasonable or unrealistic it is. |
| 1:34.9 | How can I get them to tip reasonably without causing intense drama? |
| 1:39.8 | It's already at least one episode of One Life to Live during family visits, |
| 1:44.5 | and I get a bit tired of walking on eggshells. |
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