I'm bringing back greeting people in the streets. I have thus far good-morning'd 6 unsuspecting folk of my local community and have achieved a 100% hit rate. I cannot be stopped. I am the friendly neighbourhood....Goodmorning-Man. Goodmorning-Man, Goodmorning-Man. Does whatever a goodmorning can.
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@TheBreadmonkey you win when you get the Gandalf reply:
"What do you mean? Do you mean to wish me a good morning or do you mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not? Or perhaps you mean to say that you feel good on this particular morning. Or are you simply stating that this is a morning to be good on?"
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Mrs. Joe and I used to do that. We’d walk to the neighborhood coffee shop of a morning and say hi to folks along the way. We discovered that it worked best, when it was a woman approaching us, for my wife to speak first.
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Glad to read that.
Keep it going - and let's make it pandemic.
@TheBreadmonkey I reckon you could be a goodmorningsman, like batsman or outdoorsman
I live in the country and you have to greet anyone over the age of 18. Failure to do so is borderline antisocial behaviour.
@TheBreadmonkey like, 100% of people have hit you?
@TheBreadmonkey Goood Ben!
I do this by default for years now and I love it😸
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There's an elderly woman in my street who's often out in front of her house when I pass. I say good morning, etc and she smiles and says something back in a language that I don't understand or recognise.
I've spoken to that woman more than some of the people who live in the same small unit block as me.
@TheBreadmonkey the other people: "Oh no! My memory's going. I can't remember being introduced to him!"
Are you likely to break out into song at any point, because there are limits
I aaaaalwaaaaays dooooooo
@TheBreadmonkey this is not abnormal in Texas. At least in Houston and DFW. Or maybe I just miss/ignore social cues. I Gooe Morning the HELL out of people here.
@TheBreadmonkey I do this. In Massachusetts, a place reputed to be unfriendly, it feels subversive.
@TheBreadmonkey You could become an undertaker, and wish everyone a good mourning all day...
@TheBreadmonkey I love doing this, I've reprogrammed several people into responding now. At first they didn't say anything or just grunted but now I get smiles and actual words!
@TheBreadmonkey I used to do that, but one day a person stopped and embellished their good morning with some more words as if they were expecting a conversation now and I couldn't cope with that so I've gone back to doing a nod and a mumbled "Hi", but only IF I am spoken to first, otherwise it seems it can get complicated fast.
@scribblanitea @TheBreadmonkey 💯,000% same experience here.
judicious goodmornings are how I roll. goodmornings are for closers.
@falcennial ...and lower pitched goodmornings are for receders?
@TheBreadmonkey it works if there are only a very few people, but constantly saying it in a busy street might be uncomfortable