Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for a Tuesday edition of our podcast. Hope your march is off to a great start. If you grew up in the home I grew up in, there were certain rules. You are going to write a thank you note for a gift regardless of whether you like the gift or not, you're going to write a note,

not a text, not a warm thought, but a handwritten note.

You're not going to start eating until my mom, who was the chef, sat down, period, no exceptions.

You're not going to get up until the last person finished eating, which,

you know, it's hard to eat and talk at the same time. So at least one of my three sisters was

always the last one to finish her meal while the rest of us were just kind of cooling our jets.

But you could not get up until everyone had finished, which, yes, it was every bit as long as you're imagining

it being, you're not going to end a sentence in a proposition. Heaven help you if you use

a four-letter word in our household, you would not live to see the sun go down if my father

were around. And if you did it around my mom, you wouldn't get

the death penalty, but you would learn the taste of ivory soap. So is that old fashion? Is it basic

etiquette? Does etiquette matter anymore? Are there societal rules? And if so, what are they? And how do we handle those awkward

experiences that we seem to find popping up from time to time? We are joined today by a subject

matter expert. She is a lawyer, but she's an etiquette expert with a book titled, Was It Something

I Said? And usually the answer is yes. Whenever somebody asked me that, was it something I said?

I always say, yes. But that might not be the right response. We're going to find out.

Allison Shepardack is the author. She's also a lawyer, although she may not want me saying that.

Some people want to keep that a secret. But, well, you got, you have JD behind your name. So you're not trying to keep that a secret, are you?

I'm not trying to keep it a secret.

Okay. All right.

Well, I didn't want to, I mean, look, different people have different thoughts about lawyers, but you're not like a trial lawyer or are you?

No, I worked in big law right out of law school, and then I worked in the administration

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