Autumn Break: Mistaking Customers for Employees, Forgetting Previous Introductions, Washing Dishes Before Returning, and More
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 mistaking customers for store employees, forgetting you've been introduced before, washing dishes before returning them, and much more.
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 mistaking customers for store employees, forgetting you've been introduced before, washing dishes before returning them, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a hand-written thank you note if we could.)
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QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:
- What do I do about strangers in stores mistakenly thinking I'm an employee and asking for help?
- What do I do about a parent who asked me to sign a pre-written recommendation letter for her daughter?
- What's the best way to follow-up with non-responders to an electronic dinner party invitation?
- Do I have to accommodate a vegan guest who is not always vegan?
- How do I deal with someone who always forgets we've been introduced before?
- Should you wash a dish before returning it?
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CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
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