I posed a question yesterday that I honestly had never
really considered until I read someone else question it. I asked my FB friends what their first
response was to the words “Thank You.” I
guess you never really think about it until someone says it and frankly, as a
society we do not thank one another enough.
I am going to come clean and let you all know I also
Twitter. Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest…my
list of social media connections continues to get longer and longer, but
whatever. Every night before I can fall
asleep, because I have OCD, I read my Twitter feed and USA Today. I am not ashamed to admit it is how I stay
connected to the outside world. I am
completely addicted to The Huffington Post which is basically an Internet News
Paper. I suppose I secretly (well not so
much now that you all know) want to write for this organization someday. It is a veritable plethora of news, mind
blowing actually…too much to take in at one time, so Twitter breaks it down for
me and then I can save the articles I want to read before I close my eyes at
night.
ANYWAY, I follow all kinds of
important (well to me) people on Twitter, for all kinds of reasons, but one of
the people I follow is Bette Midler. Yes
Bette Midler. Sorry but I fell in love
with her after the movie Beaches. Truly,
one of the best movies ever. And I
adored her in The First Wives Club, but anyway…I follow her. Yesterday she posted this: People:
when someone says "Thank you", the proper response is "You're
welcome", not "No problem", or worse, "Not a problem".
Pls RT global. I had
to laugh, because she was pretty passionate about it. And because it made me question what my
response is to that statement.
Personally? I think 90% of the
time I say, “You bet.” And I got that from my years in Minnesota…just ask a
Minnesotan…it’s pretty much the standard response for anything you say to
them.
So really, this blog is twofold. First, we don’t say Thank You enough as it is
and apparently when a person does, it is “proper” to respond with “you’re
welcome.” Well, proper according to
Bette Midler anyway, but it for sure causes you to pause and think about your
answer. Well it did me.
Thank you to all of my peeps that responded I loved your
answers! If you said you’re welcome, you
WIN! No, I think it’s personal, how you
respond, can be different depending on what the person is thanking you for, but
nonetheless it made me think about it.
And it was VERY interesting to me to see which of you said you’re
welcome. Interesting because I think our
responses completely depend on how we were raised, which could also create an
entirely different blog altogether, but I think it really does depend on what
was status quo in our own households. We
live in a world where right now I would say the majority of us think that the
world “owes us” something…we do not do nice things because we want to or
because we are nice people, we do them and then wonder what we will get back
from it…what do I get in return kind of thing…which is sad.
I would imagine the next time someone says Thank You, I will
definitely take a second to think about it and try NOT to say you bet…
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