Dan from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a jogger wants a word to say when coming up behind someone so as not to startle them. Pass on your left? Beep beep? Excuse me? Or is it better to make a non-verbal noise, like shuffling your feet or clapping your...
Sure, it’s scary to send your writing to a literary agent. But pity the poor agent who must wade through hundreds of terrible query letters a week! One of them shares excerpts from those hilariously bad query letters on a blog called SlushPile...
A listener in Taiwan reports that if someone knocks when you’re in public restroom there, the customary response is to knock back! This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Knocking in the Restroom” We’re still...
What’s an appropriate response when someone knocks on your bathroom stall? How about “You can come in, but you can’t sit down!” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Response from Inside the Bathroom...
