Second Helpings: Feeling Obligated to Babysit, Serving Sliced Lemons, Fixing Friends' Typos, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! This week, Nick and Leah are enjoying a well-deserved break, but they'll be back next week with an all-new episode. In the meantime, here's one of their favorite episodes from the archives in which they answer listener questions about feeling obligated to babysit for a neighbor, serving sliced lemons at a buffet, fixing friends' social media typos, 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:
- A neighbor is upset I'm not always available to volunteer to babysit on short notice...what do I do?
- At a buffet lunch, should sliced lemons for water be served with a spoon or a fork?
- Should I say something to a family member who isn't washing their hands after using the bathroom?
- Is it OK to cash a check before sending a thank you note?
- Should I say something to a friend who has typos in her online advertisements?
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CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
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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. |
| 0:28.2 | And check it out. |
| 0:29.5 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:30.5 | Wolves Plus. |
| 0:31.5 | And now let's start the show. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey there, it's Nick. |
| 0:34.4 | And it's Leah. |
| 0:35.4 | Real quick thing before we get going, we are still on a break this week. |
| 0:38.8 | Happy Labor Day weekend. |
| 0:53.2 | Yes, and we'll be back next week with an all new episode. So it's just one more week. You will be fine. I miss you already. So I'm not sure how I'm going to be, but we're going to make it through. We're going to make it through. But we didn't want to leave you empty-handed. |
| 0:56.4 | So we found the perfect episode from the archives just for you. |
| 1:14.3 | This one has, I think, one of the most mind-blowing questions, the babysitting question. Oh, this is wild. Yeah. No, the idea of this happening is like, what is going on out there? This is one that Nick and I were like, I guess we have to go to this place. Yes, this is definitely one of those questions where I wanted to do a house call, |
| 1:27.7 | for sure. Oh, when I re-listen, my jaw was clenching. I was like, should we follow up? Yeah, no, this is definitely something that still haunts me. On a positive note, there's also a question about hand sanitizer and you know I love hand sanitizer. I've been a fan since the beginning. I |
| 1:28.4 | carry it around with me in multiple bags. I plan on carrying it around with me until my late |
| 1:33.7 | hundreds. It is one of your favorite liquids. It is a favorite liquid. And this episode also has a |
| 1:39.8 | moment where the student becomes the master. You nail the answer to a question, |
| 1:45.6 | and I was not ready for it. |
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