Ask Merry Tip: Set yourself apart, after an interview always send a handwritten thank you note immediately to the interviewer.

Ask Merry Tip: Dining at a restaurant, the host guides the server to take the guests order first, the host orders last.

Ask Merry Tip:When finished eating place your utensils across your plate at the 10 and 4 o’clock positions, napkin folded beside your plate.

Ask Merry Tip: In designing invitations, when a gift is expected the wording comes from a third person, never from yourself.

Ask Merry: Your napkin is to remain on your lap during the meal except to blot your mouth if you leave the table napkin goes on your chair.

Ask Merry Tip:The dining table is not your domain. Keep your cell phone and other items to yourself and off the table. What’s your dilemma?