Is it just my parents, or do most Boomers view saying "please" and "thank you" as an afterthought?
They'll ask me to do something, and then a few seconds later they add, "Please, thank you," as if they realized that they have to say it.
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automatic response, same as when someone says "how's it going" to a cashier, and the person responds "good". this interaction rarely means anything other than formality. The person asking doesn't usually want to know, and the person responding doesn't usually want to tell
I see. So it still means the same but is just not authentically expressed? I guess I have never been to a place where these words are always expressed with a deep feeling.
Mostly good. I got a tick in my balls.