Posted on 06/03/2021 2:03:26 PM PDT by 4Runner
As we're all taught as children, the traditional response to "thank you" is "you're welcome." This reply goes back to the early 20th century, but since that time a slew of hip, laidback alternatives—"it's nothing," "forget it," "think nothing of it," "my pleasure," "no sweat," "no worries," among others—have enlivened the language of politeness. One, however, isn't always welcomed with open arms, and we don't know why exactly. That oft-maligned expression is "no problem."
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I just stare at people with ,y cold, dead eyes until they go away🤣🤣🤣
You’re welcome->no problem->no prob->np->meh
My first thought when I hear “no problem” is:
“Well ain’t that just special!”
I may say it, but only when it is not done as part of a job or me being paid anything.
So people make fun of snowflakes all the time and then folks get wound up over “no problem”? LOL
Why would the accurate “I only did it because I get paid to” be an improvement?
Why can’t you just hear what they say? If I say something wasn’t a problem for me, then it wasn’t a problem.
(BTW, It never ceases to amaze how quickly the bottom feeders on FR surface from the muddy depths to personally attack the OP.)
It doesn’t tick me off, but it does rub me slightly the wrong way. Especially if it is always the response to a ‘thank you’. Then there’s Chick-fil-A employees who always respond with “my pleasure”. I realize that it is trained and not really sincere, but what they’re saying is they’re glad to have helped rather than it was not problem for them to help.
“It is the least I could do.”
If I could do less, I would.
really? this is not a big deal.
Nobody cares whether or not it was a "problem" for YOU. That's the part you and your type just don't GET. You are NOT the whole enchilada.
Ya. The language is goin’ to the dogs I tell ya. Ever since Zogg popularized shortening the name “big-fanged cat demon bone cruncher” to “Ahhhrgh-crunch!” the language has been going downhill.
The fashions come and go.
30 years ago everybody was ready to kill over “Have a nice day.”
Why are you THANKING someone for doing something for you that's actually their job and someone else pays them to do?
"No problem," or "anytime," or "forget about it" is a polite response to a "thank you." If you don't want to hear the response, then don't trigger it by saying "thank you."
You thanked me. So it IS about me, I AM the enchilada. You thought I did something worth thanking, I’m informing you it wasn’t that big a thing.
“Have a nice day,” has turned into “Stay safe.”
Please please please tell us what else offends you.
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