[Pet Peeve]People who say 'uh huh' instead of You're Welcome

Example:

Me: "Could you bring us menus, please?"
Waiter: - brings menus -
Me: "Thank you"
Waiter: "Uh-huh"

Look - it's your friggin' job to bring a menu to me. It was gracious of me to ask politely instead of saying something like "Do we get menus here or are we just supposed to be psychic?". I'm a customer here and you're not doing me any special favors by bringing me a menu.

So, it was polite of me to ask nicely. It was your job to respond by bringing me a menu.

When I say "Thank you", I'm being polite again. Be appreciative of the fact that I've now been patient and courteous twice at a time when I'm having to ask you to do your job (which you are expected to do) and demonstrate your appreciation with a "you're welcome".

That's why I say "usually, no".


When I say "thank you" after someone has done something special for me, you're right - their action seems to serve as a positive response.

More often than not, however, I'm saying "thank you" to people when they're expected to be doing something because it's their job.

 

Uh huh. Still about the dumbest thing I've ever heard for a pet peeve.

 

the fact that anyone would respond uh huh to "thank you" makes me want to punch my computer screen!!!

 

What about "sure", "no problem, "of course" or "always".

We have some sensitive Sallies on this board, no doubt.

 

Different eyes see different things.

 

i just had a work encounted...I said "thanks", she said "your welcome", then i responded with "uh-huh". was that wrong?

 

I say "You are most welcomed in this manor your lordship!" then lick them about the bum.

 

The purpose of being polite or treating someone with respect shouldn't be so that it's reciprocated.

It peeves me a little with people who don't acknowledge that I hold the door for them, but there's not much I can do on my end. I can either stop holding the door or do what I've always been doing.

I think you should notice the people who say you're welcome more than those with an uh huh. A half glass full kind of mindset.

 

1) Don't expect reciprocation.
2) Sometimes they are doing you a favor.
3) A lot of times these phrases are just "auto-pilot" responses. Their mind may be preoccupied thinking of other things and they weren't even expecting a "thank you" in the first place.

 

Uh huh doesn't bother me, but this always confuses me.

Question: "How are you doing today?"

Reply: "How are you?"

Should I answer? I asked first, but didn't get a reply.

But now that I think about it....I'm just being polite by asking and don't really care how they're doing.

 

The typical dgaf answer is "I'm fine, thank you".

You never hear the other person say, "you're welcome, I'm fine too!" for good reason...

 

I'm with Rocketman on this one. It just doesn't seem like that big of a difference. Should've included a poll!

 

I think it is a big deal, especially when you are raising kids.

Too many kids these days are inept and oblivious to manners and common courtesy.

When I deal with someone who has a lack of manners and common courtesy, I think to myself "I hope they don't have kids".

 

We prefer the term Uptight Umas you ******* mother****ing ******* sonofabitch

 

Reading this thread I got to thinking, what the hell does the phrase "you're welcome" mean anyway? So I looked it up:

http://www.mtannoyances.com/?p=97


The phrase you're welcome, as a response to thank you, dates only from the early part of the 20th century. The first record of it is in W. W. Jacobs' Short Cruises: "'Thank you,’ said the girl, with a pleasant smile. ‘You’re quite welcome,’ said the skipper." This usage popped up so late because welcome meant "well come" (i.e., one's arrival was pleasing) prior to that time, and that was broadened to include such meanings as "pleasing" or "acceptable". That group of meanings, however, arose in Middle English due to the influence of Old French bien venu, "welcome" (literally, "well come"). In Old English, welcome, which had the form wilcuma, meant "one whose coming is pleasing" or applied to someone who was "acceptable as a visitor". It was formed from wil- or will- "will, desire" and cuma "comer, guest".

The sense in you're welcome is one of "it was pleasing to me to do" whatever it was that you were thanked for.


And also saying "thank you" is not being nice, it's obligatory. Uh-huh is a perfectly acceptable - albeit informal - response IMO.

 

my pet peeve is when people talk about their pet peeves

 

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yeah, now that i think of it, "youre welcome" doesnt even make sense any more! "no problem" seems like a much better response because when some one says thank you. its like you went out of your way to help them, and you respond with "no problem" because it wasnt really out of your way, you were just being polite.

 

I say "sure"