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| buffypuff |
Posted - Nov 24 2009 : 5:52:39 PM
I have recently begun to be irritated with many answering "No Problem!" That is usually said after I say "thank you." I hear it in response to obtaining my food order at a restaurant, someone opening a door for someone etc. I very rarely hear "You are welcome" which to me is a more personal exchange.
Does this or any other saying bug you? Maybe if there are enough of us that dislike the same thing, we can start a change.
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| buffypuff |
Posted - Apr 07 2010 : 6:43:49 PM
 I loved your post Natesgirl! I think when I started this thread, it was the "unthinking" that goes into our responses. One could very well just say anything as an answer. I was feeling that we were de-personalizing our conversations with another. That really makes me sad. I think that is one reason I like the Farmgirl Connection. In our responses, it is directly connected with what another has said. Isn't that cool? Really reading, or listening to what another has to say. I think that is a treasure.
As far as your Becky dog. I think that is wonderful that you have kept her litle soul going. One of our dogs also is blind in one eye, and was given to us by a pet store, as they would have taken him to the pound, being unable to sell him. He is a little skitterish as I think he feels he may not be able to defend himeslf. He is a dear, though. Glad we have him! Thanks for your response!
Buffypuff/ Claudia
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| natesgirl |
Posted - Apr 07 2010 : 03:22:25 AM
I don't care for the 'no problem' thing or 'whatever'. I frequently use 'glad to do it' or 'glad I could help'. A side note on the 'gettin rid of' when it comes to animals it infuriates me. We have a dog that went blind as a young dog and we kept her in the house with us until she simply got to big for the house, then we took her to my FILs house a few miles down the road. He has a dog run for his dog who is play buddies with ours. We still fed, cared, and visited her daily. We now live there since my FIL passed and still have our sweet becky dog. She is so loved that going blind hasn't made her mean only a little nervous. She still loves to meet new people and new dogs! There is no reason to ditch your pets. And I must mention that my 1 y/o daughter has more manners than most teens. She slurs out thank you, and welcome quite well. Please still comes out peas and most people don't understand her, but she tries. You want to see pure, unadulterated altruism drop something in front of a toddler, or act like you can't get the drawer or cabinet open. They will jump right in to help without being asked and smile about it. That's hope for the future!
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| CountryBorn |
Posted - Feb 19 2010 : 2:47:25 PM
I believe with the no problem answer, I think that most people really don't mean that as being impolite. I always have taken it as meaning no problem, glad to do it. At least with the people who have said it to me that's how they have meant it. Now the whatever answer, that makes me want to slap somebody lol!!
MJ
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Feb 19 2010 : 12:44:40 PM
My mom and dad taught us to open the doors for people especially for elder people, and to say Yes please, no thank you, your are welcome, yes mame, no mame, yes sir, no sir. And to call people Mr, Mrs, Miss, ect. But there are many people in the world who are rude! Maybe we should pray for them.
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Channah
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| buffypuff |
Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 1:00:25 PM
Exactly, Brenda! I see young and old use the no problem answer routinely. That's just it. Everything has become routine and not heart-felt in stead of personalizing an answer with a proper response.
Buffypuff/ Claudia
Farmgirl & Sister #870
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| classygram |
Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 09:36:53 AM
What get to me is when someone has done something very nice for you and you Thank them, they just say "No Problem". Well maybe not, but to me it was wonderful and I was grateful for the help. Could they at least try make it seem like it was important to them also.
Brenda |
| knitnpickinatune |
Posted - Feb 12 2010 : 08:11:33 AM
another one is seeing younger pro NFL players interviewed and every other word is "y'know?" Makes me wonder if they purchased their University degree rather than earning it. When you see the now long retired players interviewed (such as the Steelers of old) they are extremely articulate! Something is amiss there.....
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| buffypuff |
Posted - Feb 03 2010 : 7:27:23 PM
Luyce, I've done the same thing too, in fact I catch myself typing those same words, and then go back to change it all. I chuckled when you wrote you were not logged in when writing your beautiful piece of prose. I have done that, and have not been very happy with myself.
Buffypuff/ Claudia
Farmgirl & Sister #870
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| knitnpickinatune |
Posted - Feb 03 2010 : 07:53:23 AM
Mumblers drive me nuts-seems to be big with the college age guys-they think it's cool or something.
Saying "whatever!" when in disagreement with you.
Using the term "don't got no", "ain't" ,or "0-10" for the current year. (I have some co workers at my part time job a jr college and they talk this way. Egads!)
"you don't know me" is another biggie. Falls in the same catagory as "whatever".
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| melody |
Posted - Feb 03 2010 : 07:40:35 AM
Grammar....
" I seen that!" Or this is another one; " Borrow me some money!"
It's like a piece of chalk screeching across a chalkboard for me!
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Melody
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| classygram |
Posted - Feb 03 2010 : 05:25:39 AM
What gets to me most is when I can stand there and see ladies needing help with the baby stroller or wheelchair, etc. and there stands a man waiting for her to get out of his way. Of course I will get in there and help her out and just wonder who forgot to teach him some manners. I just can't understand how someone can just stand watching someone in need.
My daughter went to Walmart to get a card table and chairs for my grand-son at Christmas. To take back to the home he is staying in for college. She was alone and if you could imagine a box big enough to hold table and chairs laying on top of her cart. No one to help her to take it out. She gets to her car and trying to get the back of her van open the cart takes off down the street. There is a man and woman standing over by their car, watching!! Here she has put her purse in first so she didn't have to worry about it just being in the cart while she's trying to get this box in the back. But she has to take off for her cart. Finally getting back to her van, watcher's still standing by, she continues to struggle with the box. Finally as she gets it positioned where she can just shove it in, the man comes over and asked if she needed any help. She stood there a sec and said No I believe I finally got it. But Thank you! Pause----Did he even get what she actually was wanting to say. At least I'm proud of her for being polite. What we teach does pay off. |
| buffypuff |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 12:50:57 PM
Have you ever heard the song that has "Ya know what I mean" in it? We pick up the strangest things from some of the oddest places. Rae, I also used to use very good grammar. No prepositions at the end of a sentence etc. I think poor grammar crept into my speech when caring for patients who did not have proper grammar. I was a young nurse, and was very conscious that I was speaking differently to make some of my patients more comfortable/acceptable. Stupid! Oh well, I struggle to correct those things after 48 years. It may be possible, I hope!
Buffypuff/ Claudia
Farmgirl & Sister #870
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| DebbieSue |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 12:20:49 PM
It bothers me when I hear "ya know what I mean" over and over in a conversation! |
| Old Spirit |
Posted - Feb 01 2010 : 11:14:58 AM
How about grammar? Me and .... went to the store. Drives me nuts when people list themselves first. Or I hear kids saying all the time oh it was on accident. Does that mean BY accident or ON purpose???
Rae
Farm Girl #647
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| buffypuff |
Posted - Jan 14 2010 : 9:29:46 PM
Hi Lori, I would have sworn your worked in healthcare with the saying of "same page, outside the box etc." One that was popular several years ago, measuring everything against the "benchmark." We used to chuckle about what mark was on the bench. I have heard the word flustrated. Of course when people invent words, they often become words for the dictionary.
Buffypuff/ Claudia
Farmgirl & Sister #870
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| Canadian farmgirl |
Posted - Jan 14 2010 : 3:50:47 PM
My MIL will say goodbye or end a phone conversation with "we'll talk at you later..." Talk AT me? She also says "I seen" and has now gotten my son saying that, instead of "I saw". GRRR!
Do you have anyone that says chimley instead of chimney? I do! My SIL insists she's going to Wal-Mark not Walmart...and another SIL invents new words, like flustrating (I guess she's flustered and frustrated!).
I also am so tired of these phrases "all on the same page" and "think outside the box". Also "take ownership" and "find closure" seem to be overused, maybe from the daytime talk shows.
I am just starting to text my children, and they think it's hilarious how I won't use text language! I'm sorry, I just can't use that lower case i !
Lori
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| buffypuff |
Posted - Jan 14 2010 : 11:06:23 AM
I'm snickering like mad. First of all....if you think of anything that was deleted...write back! The other thing on which I would like clarification: Was the bull- 1) well endowed or 2) very gentle? I am sure you know the answer. Thanks for contributing!! By the way, I will be looking at my WA-OR AAA map to find Glide, but in a way, we are neighbors! Welcome!
Buffypuff/ Claudia
Farmgirl & Sister #870
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| traildancer |
Posted - Jan 14 2010 : 10:08:37 AM
Oh, no--I just posted a wonderful (if I do say so myself) bit about my peeves and it's all gone because I wasn't logged in.
So short and sweet--"have went...." instead of "went" or "have gone."
My husband does this. Just makes me grit my teeth.
Spell check isn't so great because it doesn't account for homonyms. There was a classified ad in our paper years ago for a "very genital bull." Well, no kidding! He's a bull, after all. When I called the number, the man didn't get it and asked if I wanted to use the bull. |
| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jan 12 2010 : 4:23:16 PM
Claudia, why thank you! How nice of you to comment. We're not quite settled in yet. My blog is sadly out of date.
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| buffypuff |
Posted - Jan 12 2010 : 3:31:55 PM
Brenda, I went to your blog and you have a very beautiful home!
Buffypuff/ Claudia
Farmgirl & Sister #870
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| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jan 12 2010 : 3:18:06 PM
People around here do their "warsh" on laundry day. Sometimes it just makes me laugh.
Jonnie - my dad is from Ohio and he says "warsh" I thought it was an Ohio thing!
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| buffypuff |
Posted - Jan 12 2010 : 1:53:27 PM
I had to laugh. Siobhan, please please DO NOT say sorry for using those...those...what ever you call it abbreviations. I'm just a little slow. With technology comes change, and I guess we are in the thrust of it. God help us...what it will be 10 yrs from now. Sherry, I think it is just wrong to have some one say...it ain't nothing. That deals with "one-ups-manship." Irritating. Jonnie, we have some of the same regionalisms here too. Is it creek (Eek!)or is it crick? Is it roof (like book) or roof (like boot)? Years ago when my grand uncle/aunt came down from Calgary, he talked about the garage with the emphasis on the "gar". He also said something that probably is NEVER used anymore. He told my Mom that they were going to visit his sister by saying "He was going to knock her up".....meaning knocking at the door. When my folks laughed, I took special notice of it and of course remember it 50+ years later. Sorry if I offended anyone!
Buffypuff/ Claudia
Farmgirl & Sister #870
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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Jan 12 2010 : 1:13:36 PM
My kids have gotten so use to me not knowing what the abbreviations stand for, If I use one they automatically write back and tell me what it means. They just assume I am asking. There is a new one I have been hearing from my kids lately. If you ask them a question they don't know the answer to the just say "there's an app. for that". Meaning they can look it up on their cell phone. I think we may be hearing it alot. Our language has sure changed. I am older but I hate to think what would happen if my Grandmother (who died several years ago) tried to have a conversation with one of my children. It is almost like speaking a foreign language.
Farmgirl Sister 572
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| clothedinscarlet |
Posted - Jan 12 2010 : 12:41:08 PM
LOL (laugh out loud) Claudia! Actually, I am not a texter at all and could not communicate with a teenager via text if my life depended on it. I missed that generation by about 10 years, I guess. I only know a bit of forum speak. And if I ever shorten something that doesn't make sense to you, please call me out and I will explain myself. Sorry, it's just habit as I've participated in a mommy forum for the past 2 1/2 years and it's gotten ingrained in me.
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| buffypuff |
Posted - Jan 12 2010 : 11:49:32 AM
You ladies have opened my eyes to many different things. I started this thread about a "no problem" but what I see with all of our contributions, is that sometimes what we say to another or write another is just a quick flippant answer. I appreciate also what Siobhan wrote, and that Beth wrote about.....textinglingo. Now I must admit, I am probably older that you all are, but I have to stop, & think when I read some emails that my grand-daughters write me. I understand the LOL or even ROTFL, (although I must admit, I had to stop and see if I had it right.)I just can't decipher what the youngsters (and probably most of you) say. I can take shortcuts like, (luv, cuz, BTW, etc..) etc....lol, but I just am not hep,?? hip??, well.. with it.. when it comes to the modern way of doing things. So, as I struggle & spell most things out, please forgive me for taking up so much space.
By the way, I am learning so much from you, and understanding to a greater depth than I even realized. Thank you!
Buffypuff/ Claudia
Farmgirl & Sister #870
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