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See You Later, x
A typical exchange with the spotty youth manning, or teenagering, the supermarket checkout yesterday. After we paid and packed, I said “thanks” and he said “see you later.” Actually, what he said was more like “see yers later”, but that’s besides the point really. Now, unless I’ve missed a very subtle invitation from a boy…
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No problem revisited
I blogged before – blimey, nearly six years ago – about the use of “no problem” as an all-purpose response by people who serve you in shops, bars etc. There was a classic instance of it last night. We went for a pre-event meal to a branch of a well-known pizza chain, whose name begins…