"Have a good one" and "no problem"

[docellis]

I prefer friendly people wanting me to have a good one to crabby people who barely talk when taking your money...

[G. Keenan]

Rant vetoed. I like both these expressions because they're a little more casual and make a person sound less like a service robot/1950's housewife/tool. And what kind of person would it make me if I expected service personnel to speak to me in some appropriately deferential way? Old, that's what.

[Bo Hart]

Rant vetoed. I like both these expressions because they're a little more casual and make a person sound less like a service robot/1950's housewife/tool.

Hilarious, and I agree.

[stlouie_lipp]

It would be funny if you are ever a judge and tell the witness to step down and he says, "no problem, have a good one."

Rant vetoed. I like both these expressions because they're a little more casual and make a person sound less like a service robot/1950's housewife/tool. And what kind of person would it make me if I expected service personnel to speak to me in some appropriately deferential way? Old, that's what.

Well, I do act like an old man at times.

[Popeye_Card]

Random question. Why do we insist on saying, "How are you?" when it is clear that we really do not care how the other person is doing. Like it matters anyway, because the responses are almost always, "good", or "fine".

Random insight into the mind of P_C. When someone says hello to me, I almost always respond, "howdy". I have no idea why I do this. I'm not a cowboy. Yet for some reason, this is what rolls off the ol' tongue each time.

[StatmanCrothers]

Random question. Why do we insist on saying, "How are you?" when it is clear that we really do not care how the other person is doing. Like it matters anyway, because the responses are almost always, "good", or "fine".

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when i was working saturdays as a gas station clerk, whenever i would ask "how's it going" or "how are you" and the person would actually respond in the negative, "crappy!", "you don't want to know", or "not so good" or god forbid, actually give me a run down of their problems, my response was always the same...

"yeah, but besides all that, hows it going?"

which actually caused some of these sad people to visibly perk up, realizing that EVERYTHING wasn't bad.

[cardinalkarp]

I'm just going to tell you to [expletive] off next time. How's that for courtesy!

[lukethedrifter]

It's all good.

[JL21]

Random question. Why do we insist on saying, "How are you?" when it is clear that we really do not care how the other person is doing. Like it matters anyway, because the responses are almost always, "good", or "fine".

I always reply "Bueno".

[Cronos]

Random question. Why do we insist on saying, "How are you?" when it is clear that we really do not care how the other person is doing. Like it matters anyway, because the responses are almost always, "good", or "fine".

Random insight into the mind of P_C. When someone says hello to me, I almost always respond, "howdy". I have no idea why I do this. I'm not a cowboy. Yet for some reason, this is what rolls off the ol' tongue each time.

This is a good point. There's a big difference, to me, in saying "How are you" then saying "How you doin' ". Questions that basically become greeting statements.

I wish I had studied linguisitics.