Bush
cute lil war dog
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(Butchered this post to death)
- "You're welcome" connotes a transaction of sorts. "No problem" signifies that there was very little to transact in the first place. Both are valid in context. The former is more appropriate in business, really, since business is all about transactions and with business comes a degree of formality. The latter is informal, and if saying that phrase helps a cashier through their day because they don't have to feel rigid, more. power to them. But in the end it's pedantry.
- I personally roll with either one (though with a skew toward the latter), but it wholly depends on context. Not that it's given thought, but I just naturally end up saying one or the other in different contexts.
- I know it's a tangential thought -- but people aren't entitled to a "you're welcome" (or "no problem", or an "ain't nothin' but a thang") at all. It's also just fine, in general, to go out there and do good things without expecting gratitude.
- This is like.. a zeroth-world problem in the real world. Sure, anything (even this) can be taken apart and explored.. but caring about it in the real world is a different matter.
- Millennials aren't even able to respond to a "thank you" in the correct manner, likely because they're not used to expressing gratitude for anything on account of entitlement., is what I would say if I were a crotchety old man.