How to Behave: A Guide to Modern Manners for the Socially Challenged by Caroline Tiger
Is there any polite way to shush a chatty person at the movies? Should roller bladers be passed on the left side or the right side? When is it unacceptable to answer your cell phone? And why doesn t anyone in your grocery store seem to understand the basic rules of shopping cart navigation and right-of-way? If you ve ever pondered these kinds of questions, How to Behave is the book you ve been waiting for: a hip, irreverent, but entirely practical guide to proper behavior in the twenty-first century. Here are dozens of fascinating skills that Emily Post wouldn t even think to mention like the best ways to:
Share elbow space on an airplane armrest
Contend with road rage
Position yourself when boarding a crowded elevator
Observe basic e-mail etiquette
Speak on a cell phone without enraging others
. . . plus dozens of other essential survival techniques. Much more than a simple etiquette book, How to Behave is a real-life guide to living in the real world.
