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August 22, 2008

How’s your etiquette? Let Hyatt help. Or just ask me.

Filed under: Manners — Rick Seaney @ 1:42 pm

Okay, Hyatt has “partnered” with Anna Post, the great-great-granddaughter of etiquette expert Emily Post, to teach you lugs some manners.

Anna seems like a nice woman, very polite and all, but I do have a couple of questions:

1. When did “partner” become a verb? And why?
2. What’s the point of learning manners from Anna when we still have Emily?

Oh, not in the flesh — the lady died 48 years ago. But she lives on in her “Etiquette” books. Get one, and read it. Try for an original at an old bookshop - I like the 1945 Funk & Wagnalls edition.

No, it doesn’t say anything specifically about cell phone use in polite society, but do you really need a book for that? Just remember what Mom used to say about doing unto others and you’ll be okay. Common sense, folks. And when it comes to everything else, trust me - everything you need to know about etiquette — and life — is contained in this volume. Everything.

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