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Was i an old grouch?
we went to a pub yesterday eve & enjoyed some good ribs & craft brewery beer.
the waitress was very young & cheerful & the service was pretty good. as she came to pick up the visa machine we were just getting up to leave; and she said with a huge smile ( anticipating a good tip, which she got) "and did you have a wonderful evening". i said "well it may not have been quite wonderful but it was nice & the ribs were good." she still smiled at my reply but with what i'm pretty sure was a slightly puzzled look on her face. my wife got a little pissed at me.
i don't know about the rest of you but the # of evenings i've had that i would classify as wonderful is not huge and spending 1 1/2 hrs in the pub yesterday won't make the list.

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callmedubious 8 Feb 20
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I have to somewhat side with you on that! I have a friend who wants to always make everything ‘great,’ and ‘wonderful,’ which makes it difficult to know when things are just so, so or bad! If I respond with a less than a ‘great and wonderful’ remark, he will correct me! It is hard to know how he really feels!

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yeah possibly the american over enthusiastic service speak didnt help over here its pretty much was everything to your liking at best

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Old grouch lol

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That 'literally' winds me up (like the use of the word literally!) When I lived in AZ people would always say, "how areya doin today?" But noone really wanted to know. I tried it once, I said, "I am 8months pregnant, this place is 5 million C° and I am 8000 miles away from home!" They weren't impressed. So I am glad you had an ok evening...me too

Yes, seeing peoples faces drop when I tell them, how I really am. Well, they did ask 😉
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The alternative is to be insincere? I sometimes can't stop myself from being honest, too.

Give it a shot. If someone is being polite, it is not difficult to be polite in return. Otherwise you are just being a dick.

@Sticks48 Oh, it is possible to be sincere and polite you know, I'm tactful as well as honest, but, insincerity I abhor. 🙂

@GothRik Most service people are somewhat insincere. It is part of their job to be nice, even to assholes. If you don't know that , you should get out more.

@Sticks48 I've been dealing with customers for most of my life

@GothRik Well then you know.

@Sticks48 Yes and I would respect my customers if they were honest, I would like to know if they were dissatisfied, rather than being insincere. I guess it must be a cultural difference 😟

@GothRik Some customers are never satisfied. They are not always right. I have known those people. As a manager or owner, you have to learn to spot those people. In principle l agree with you.☺
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