"I just feel like what you're doing with your silverware is racist. ... Except it's a little bit correct." "Etiquette is about signaling your own class or superiority through a set of confusing actions that is like a secret language that signals superiority," he says. 'My parents never taught us etiquette. We don't know anything'
1. When is it too late to cancel on someone?
2. How do we split the bill?
3. Text messages: What NOT to do, and is there time-induced amnesty?
4. Phone calls in public: Hell no, or do what you wish?
5. Once and for all: Can we agree on how we all get off the plane?
Today, Abby – whose mom sent her to etiquette school to learn to be a “lady” – and Glennon and Amanda – whose mom did not – discuss the New Rules for being human while surrounded by humans; the thin line between manners meant to offer consideration vs. manners meant to signal superiority; how we are all inadvertently insulting each other; and where we go from here.
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