Are You a Moron? Bring Your Etiquette Questions to Daniel Post Senning Tomorrow at 1:00 Pm ET to Find Out.
You may be having trouble writing the perfect Tinder bio. Let’s say, for example, you think that sending thanks to your mother-in-law for that weird sweater you didn’t ask for is probably a good idea, but maybe a bit overkill. You may be hosting a dinner party for the first time next week and wondering which venue settings to use. (Are the tiny forks still relevant?)
We at Lifehacker could certainly do our best to help you with these puzzles of modern etiquette, but we’d rather bring in a real expert so as not to spoil your most important interpersonal relationships. Tomorrow, Daniel Post Senning – etiquette expert , host of the Awesome Etiquette podcast, author of Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online and great-great-grandson of Emily Post herself – will be online to answer your most pressing etiquette questions.
Here are some themed ideas to help you spin your old noodles:
- Pocket squares: what is it and why?
- What will you do if your food comes to the table before your partner and at first you don’t start eating because that’s the right thing to do, but then they tell you to start eating? How rude am I if I insist on not eating yet?
- Can you wear jeans to church?
- When can I dump someone using SMS?
- How can I confront a colleague who misbehaves?
- Can I remove my weird second cousin who constantly invites me to her oral events from my Facebook friends list?
- Your girlfriend thinks you have ugly shoes and wants to buy you new ones, but you really like your ugly shoes. Who is right?
- Can you resist a coworker who always cooks smelly lunch in the microwave?
We don’t know how to answer these questions, but Daniel Post Senning probably does. Ask him yourself tomorrow at 1:00 pm ET.
It would be really rude to skip this.
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