Etiquette For Dummies

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Title: Etiquette For Dummies
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Your time will come. When you least expect it, you’ll receive an invitation

to a banquet where each table setting involves more utensils than you

have in your entire silverware drawer at home. Your company’s annual holi-

day party will be designated semiformal, and you won’t even have a clean tie.

You’ll buy exactly four steaks for Sunday dinner with your in-laws, and they’ll

bring along two cousins you never even knew existed. Life is full of moments

when you don’t know exactly what to do — but have no fear, a little bit of eti-

quette can help you through.

Yes, etiquette deals with which fork to use for the salad course and concerns

your behavior at cocktail receptions. But etiquette is a much broader issue.

Etiquette is your key to surviving every human contact with your sense of

humor and your self-esteem intact, and your reputation enhanced. Etiquette

works in supermarket checkout lines, at family picnics, at company holiday

parties, on the phone, online, and yes, at wedding receptions.

Remember that there’s no such thing as a vacation from good manners.

Politeness works everywhere, all the time, and is all about taking the lead,

making guests feel welcome, taking the time to evaluate the needs and inten-

tions of others, and behaving in a way that ensures a pleasant outcome. At

home, your polite behavior helps everyone in your family develop self-

esteem. On the job, good manners encourage others to work well with you.

As you go about your errands and chores, polite contacts with others earn

you pleasant and helpful responses. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Your

manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected,

awarding or denying you very high prizes when you least expect it.”

Unfortunately today, many people are exhibiting less civility toward one

another, and children are following suit with teachers and peers in the class-

room. The point is that everyone should do his best to set a good example

and put others first. And that’s a point that you hear again and again in this

book.  Etiquette For Dummies, 2nd Edition, can help you find a way to put

others at ease in almost any situation.

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