Thank you, thank you, thank you,..., a thread about thanking people!

caroln said:
How true! And at least the computer at the self check out lane always says thank you at the end. :rolleyes:
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The only problem with the self checkout is all the nagging... "Put your scanned item in the bagging area... Scan your next item... Scan your next item... If you're finished checking out, pay now... Scan your next item..." all while I'm trying to separate the plastic bags with my dry fingers that can't get any grip on them. I find myself talking back to it and telling it to stop bugging me! :ROFLMAO:
 

Irwin said:
The only problem with the self checkout is all the nagging... "Put your scanned item in the bagging area... Scan your next item... Scan your next item... If you're finished checking out, pay now... Scan your next item..." all while I'm trying to separate the plastic bags with my dry fingers that can't get any grip on them. I find myself talking back to it and telling it to stop bugging me! :ROFLMAO:
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Supermarket in Leek, Staffordshire, UK I visited today doesn't yet have self service checkouts so its just the fellow customers who I had to concern myself with, and luckily I dodged the two guys appearing to me to be most full of their own importance! :)
 
caroln said:
I always say thank you to the store cashier checking me out. But it really annoys me when the cashier doesn't say anything, much less thank you. Even then I'll say thank you and wonder why I did. Like, thanks for doing your job? One cashier even had the nerve to say "your welcome" as if she did me a favor. In the future, if I don't get a thank you I'll just say "you're welcome" as I'm leaving instead of thank you. I'll probably just get a dirty look.
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Next time, instead of saying something like 'have a nice day', try this;
Enjoy your next 24 hrs

Check out their look after that
 

Gary O' said:
Next time, instead of saying something like 'have a nice day', try this;
Enjoy your next 24 hrs Check out their look after that
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Whenever I entered the YMCA for swimming, there was a man who would greet everyone at the door with a cheerful smile and say,
"Make it a great day". Not "Hi how are ya". It sounded more empowering and I didn't have to reply "I'm fine" even if I wasn't.
Just a "Thank you, you too" sufficed...with a smile of course. And then there was no need for him to reply back that he was fine. He put a smile on my face every day.

Then there was a janitor where I worked. He never said "Hi how are ya" either. He always smiled and said,
"You doing okay today?" It was just different than than "Hi how are ya". It sounded more personal, like he genuinely cared.
It kind of reminded me that, hey, I AM doing okay ☺️
 
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Lara said:
Then there was a janitor where I worked. He never said "How are you" either. He always smiled and said,
"You doing okay today?" It was just different than than "Hi how are you". It sounded more personal, like he genuinely cared.
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That's really pretty sweet.

Had a friend at the cabin that wouldn't say much at all
Just disappear for a moment
and come back with a gift
Stick his hand out
Better take it

Also, he never said good bye
Just turned
And left

I admired that in him
 
I often ask Siri to find something for me, like an address. She will inevitably say "Is this the one you are looking for?" I almost always answer with "Yes, thank you." I find it really difficult to drop the 'thank you'. It feels unfinished somehow, to just say 'yes'. It amuses my partner (and my son).

I'm equal opportunity though, I have managed to hurt the feelings of a robot as well. I once swore at a chatbot on a bank app when 'he' kept failing to answer my question. The comeback was, "I'm just trying to help" and a sad emoji. Cracked me up.
 
Gary O' said:
I thanked my lady today
...for everything
Didn't know it'd make her cry
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Young red haired girl at work had leaving do yesterday, and cried when the tribute was given to her thanking her for all the hard work and everything!
Her new job involves advising farmers in Yorkshire, (where she's from), on environmental issues, and I told her she'd be inundated with offers of marriage!

"Is that what they're like"?

She asked me, and I told her my farming mates still had those things at the front of their minds, so she's been warned, (she'll make someone a good wife if she chooses to I'd guess too, like your missus!).
 
I do say Thank You often and never without meaning it. Islam ( I'm sure other religions as well as our parents) teaches that we should show our gratitude and say Thank you. I think it's so rude when (eg) you hold the door open for someone, they pass through and don't even say "thank you". It doesn't take a lot of energy to be polite and it should take no energy at all (except positive energy) to be grateful.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I do say Thank You often and never without meaning it. Islam ( I'm sure other religions as well as our parents) teaches that we should show our gratitude and say Thank you. I think it's so rude when (eg) you hold the door open for someone, they pass through and don't even say "thank you". It doesn't take a lot of energy to be polite and it should take no energy at all (except positive energy) to be grateful.
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My driving instructor many years ago, (an ex policeman), always told us to thank anyone being polite on the roads, letting you out at a junction etc.

When folks don't do so these days I can take it better than I used to, they just didn't have big Stan Mason teaching them to drive I speculate, or else they live their whole lives in a hard nosed, "winner takes all" fashion I think.
I even argued with a woman at our local rugby club yesterday telling a young player, "Winning is all that matters", (not the way I was taught, "Play to win, but lose graciously if you don't and are beaten by the better team on the day"!).
 
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I was reading a book set in South Africa, and was charmed at how people greeted one another:

First person: "Are you well today?"
Other person replies, "I am well, and you are are well too?"
First person: "I am well, and I have slept very well."
Other person: "Good!"

This seemed so gracious, to me!
 
Leonie said:
I often ask Siri to find something for me, like an address. She will inevitably say "Is this the one you are looking for?" I almost always answer with "Yes, thank you." I find it really difficult to drop the 'thank you'. It feels unfinished somehow, to just say 'yes'. It amuses my partner (and my son).

I'm equal opportunity though, I have managed to hurt the feelings of a robot as well. I once swore at a chatbot on a bank app when 'he' kept failing to answer my question. The comeback was, "I'm just trying to help" and a sad emoji. Cracked me up.
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Oh my gosh, really? I didn't know they programmed them for certain responses like that! That's awesome! I'm going to try that and see what happens.
 
Thanking people is simply an automatic response most of the time since we are programmed from childhood on to say please and thank you. When I want to emphasize my profound gratitude, I usually add, you are most kind or something on that order.
 
Gary O' said:
Next time, instead of saying something like 'have a nice day', try this;
Enjoy your next 24 hrs

Check out their look after that
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I've been known to say, "have a good one" when I'm leaving if a cashier is looking tired or cranky. It usually elicits a reply of "yup" or "you too". Better than nothing!
 
Oh, how I wish I could have tracked down the two couples who were the youth group leaders in my church when I was a kid, and the young couple that became almost a surragate family to me. There is no way I would have made it through adolescence alive had it not been for them. They will never know what a pivotal role they played in my life. Unfortunately I was never able to track them down.
 
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