Talk to strangers
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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.
New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. There's a familiar drama that plays out all the time in ordinary life. You're sitting next to someone on a train or standing in line at a coffee shop or thinking about calling an old friend. And for a second, there's an opening. You could say hello.
could give the compliment, you could make that call. But usually you don't. Not because you don't care or you're a bad person, at least I hope you're not. Normally you're just unsure. You don't want to be awkward.
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