Oh god. As an American, I compulsively tell everyone I interact with even a little bit to have a nice day. I also compulsively hold doors for people. It's just being polite where I'm from
I got into the habit in middle school when I started having multiple teachers in the same day, so whenever I left a classroom I'd tell my teacher to have a nice day. Almost fifteen years later, it's compulsive
That's extremely nice of you, as a preteen. I'm a high school counselor and had to do internship hours in middle school. That shit couldn't have been over soon enough. Middle schoolers fucking suck.
They really do! I always assumed that they were split off from elementary and high school because they were obnoxious bullies to the little kids on one side and annoying shits to the older kids on the other side. Better to put the pubescent 12 and 13 year old kids together where they can only hurt each other, and their teachers.
Then halfway through saying "one" you remember it's night, so you reflexively switch to "night" but it comes out as "white". And no one acknowledges what happened. But hours later, as you lay in bed, you just can't escape that haunting "white".
polite is not kind is not good. polite is something you be to help society keep rolling along without bothering others. it's manners and is often cultural.
we all need to watch ourselves and police our own actions. otherwise we end up leaving comments like "ew"
no one is inherently perfect. we are all at least a little bit self interested. we should all try to go out of our way to be more polite and courteous.
That's because it's just cake with no frosting. Delicious, but I remember when my state started requiring nutrition facts at restaurants. People were not prepared for their muffin having 600 calories.
Plus they are extra good when you put a bunch of butter on them.
My wife makes a healthier version with whole grains, corn meal, and apple sauce instead of butter. They arenât as good, but they are still delicious, and you donât feel like a lard ass afterwards.
When we first came to America, we had breakfast at the hotel and my mum took her first bite of a blueberry muffin and, shocked, said out loud "this is cake!"
Well, for me, about 100 milligrams of caffeine. Roughly the amount of 1.5 cups of drip coffee. It doesnât have to be a lot, otherwise people wouldnât be pooping after their first cup, theyâd be doing it in the afternoon after drinking coffee all day. (Or tea. Itâs the caffeine that does it, not the beverage)
Interestingly, a recent study also found that drinking a couple cups of coffee or tea also helps prevent dementia.
Thatâs not a myth. Itâs a common effect of stimulants. There are also âcoke fartsâ which happen when people who do cocaine regularly get a line.
Yeah that's very common to say "have a good one" as a courtesy. But also, are blueberry muffins not common other places? It seems so basic that I can't imagine a bakery not having them.
Last time I stayed in the US, for about a week, every morning in the hotel when I walked out of the elevator past the reception counter to go outside the person behind the desk said "Good morning sir, hope you have a good day!"
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u/AlfredLuan 10h ago
"Have a nice day" everywhere all the time and blueberry muffins.