Category: Social Etiquette
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Keep Your Elbows Off the Table
How often have you heard this while growing up? At home, at your aunt’s dining table and in poems, the words must echo in your head even now. What does it really mean? Why does it matter? To whom does it apply? This is a golden rule of dining etiquette…
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Make the Napkin Your Best Friend
Napkin bunglers, here are the answers you need to use a napkin at a formal or semi formal dining table with poise rather than stuffing it! 01. How should it be spread out? It should sit on your lap and not be tucked in to your neckline. Adjust it to…
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Is THIS My Glass?
Did you just unknowingly sip from your neighbour’s glass of water at a formal dinner? Were you confused about where to keep your bread roll after you picked it up from the bread basket? Were you wondering how to start buttering the bread? Great – you stumbled on to the…
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Three Quick Silverware Tips
Fast food chains, cafes and diners definitely changed the game when it came to dining and our lifestyles as a whole, across the world. This article is written from the point of view of the simple use of cutlery and you won’t find anything health related or philosophical – but…
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The Bystander Etiquette
All of us have passive roles to play in everyday events and do get to watch as the ‘world goes by’. However, there is no need to take things literally and watch or be a part of what happens in the world, all the time. Instead, let people lead their…
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How Loud Are You?
The ability to use the right tone and volume are as important as the ability to choose the right words. The tone and volume resonate one’s finesse (or lack of it).
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Patting Your Hands Dry
Everybody the world over will agree when I say that people prefer dry washrooms to wet ones; yet some of us still need a reminder and a prompt to help keep the washrooms we use dry – so here it is; the reminder and the prompt!
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Doorway Etiquette
Are you one of those people who is always inconvenienced at doorways having to hop around on one foot to get in or out or are you one of those people that are irately excused or shoo-ed away from doorways? Either way, this read should be worthwhile. Here is the…
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Do You Use Public Places the Way You Would Want Others to Use Them?
Let’s work towards making sure that we protect, preserve and care for public places as though they belonged to us.
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Silent, Yet Rude
By living in bubbles, distancing ourselves either purposely or absent mindedly from what is happening around us, we are unconsciously becoming a nuisance to others.
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Keeping the Earth Clean is Everybody’s Business
Let’s take responsibility for what is happening in our environment. Make it your business today to conserve the environment and treat it well.
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What’s with the Gestures?
Our words carry only half of the message that we intend to convey when speaking. Here is what our gestures should not be doing.
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The Queue Violator
I am not in the habit of apprehending fellow patrons, unless there is a reason. Pray tell me how we plan to progress in any way or form with people like these meandering around?
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Before You Rattle On
Check for a good time to talk before diving in to a two hour ramble about everything under the sun.
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Meandering through Malls
Mall strolling is common but it should not be a nuisance or a hindrance to the others around you. Here are things to keep in mind before you walk in.
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Ever Heard of Road Etiquette?
If you sit behind the steering wheel, road etiquette may be something you need to acquaint yourself with. Here is a small dose of it to kick off 2024 where we become better strangers.
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The Messy Affair of Queues
Been elbowed off the queue lately? Looks like you are not alone. Here is a reminder to be #fullofetiquette when in line and when trying to join a line or simply await your turn even if there is no queue per se.
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Serving Guests
When guests call over, remember that it is the ladies that are to be served first. If this comes as news – know that you are not the first to tell me that. Many people I know have thought the opposite to be true. This post should help you to…
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Punctuality and Etiquette
Here is your guide if you are ever late for anything. Those full of etiquette must know what to do when not punctual.
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Retaining Formality of a Formal Event
Formality and decorum are handed down from generation to generation through events and programmes that manifest different aspects that we value. If we drop the ball at one of these, it is likely that future generations will never know of it. Here are a few things to keep in mind.
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Slurping Over Soups and Drinks
Tea drinkers, please read on and take no offence. Everyone else, well since you can’t possibly be managing without drinking something or the other – guess some of this is relevant to you as well. Enjoy the cuppas and the read.
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The Sound of Music
When music fills the air it generates positive energies, but then there are some instances where you feel like ripping the hair out of your head when musical notes pervade the air with a thundering clap.
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In the Grand Outdoors
Has your etiquette been up to the mark when you set foot out in to the grand outdoors? Read on to find out and up your game in 2023!
