Welcome to Awesome Etiquette, where we explore modern etiquette through the lens of consideration, respect and honesty. On today’s show we take your questions on birthday gift requests, asking about a loved one’s remains, handling estrangement when not many mutual friends know about it, and a question about whether a neighbor’s request is polite or unrealistic. For Awesome Etiquette sustaining members our question is about using Venmo and social media to casually crowdsource a bachelorette. Plus your most excellent feedback, etiquette salute and a postscript where Dan interviews etiquette author and Nasa scientist Donald James about his new book, Manners Will Take You Where Brains and Money Won’t. 

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