Sorry - Can I Have A Latte

[Bazile]

Are you one of the 'sorry' people ?

Do you go into starbucks and say 'Sorry - Can I Have A Latte '

What are you sorry for ?

When someone asks you if you can change a fifty pound note - do you say 'sorry' i cant ?

Apparently women apologises more often than men

[Baldric]

Think you would have to be a fairly sad individual to do that!

[hc4361]

I don't apologise for asking for service in a shop but surely it is a social nicety to apologise when refusing a request you cannot oblige?

[Canary42]

It's one of those superfluous conversational adornments we seem to be increasingly using - like adding "very much" every time to "Thank You".

[-Talbot-]

Why don't you folks at home consider getting a fan or better still air conditioning?

[Bazile]

The average Brit says sorry 1.9 million times in his or her lifetime.

[Bazile]

//Why don't you folks at home consider getting a fan or better still air conditioning?//

'folks at home' ?
Excuse me - i'll have you know , i'm busily at work earning a crust

[McMouse]

I'm sorry for anyone who goes to Starbucks.

[Canary42]

LOL McM

[-Talbot-]

Excuse me - i'll have you know , i'm busily at work earning a crust


There's another one toward your total, Bazile.

[Bazile]

Good to see that one didn't go over your head , talbot

[Sipowicz]

Much better than "can I get a latte"!

[stuey]

Bazile, when I first glanced at your question I thought that you were going into wood or metal working and were asking for a lathe. I guess I'd better go to Spec Savers: "Sorry, can I get my eyes tested?"

[gingejbee]

I go into Waitrose and say..." can I have a free latte, please". Much more satisfying!

[Old_Geezer]

Sorry, but I think your second example is a fair time to be sad at the misfortune your change seeker had when they failed to get change from you.

One could extend it to the first example at a stretch too as, after all, you disturbed someone from their ease to get them to do their job. Cruel thing you ! So you should be sorry.

[Old_Geezer]

May, ginge, may

[andy-hughes]

People like to fit in with other people, and that includes subconciously adapting to the speech patterns of others, which makes them spread even further.

This became most noticeable when the large student population began overdosing on episodes of Neigbours, and brought the 'moronic interogative' to the nation'e lexicography - the habit of raising the voice on the last word of every sentence?.

A much hooted-at habit of the british is saying 'thank you' for everything. You walk through a door that someone is holding for you, you say thank you because that is polite, then they say thank you because - why?

The more nervous and insecure a person is, the more if these annoying conversational tics they pick up - you just have to rise above it, otherwise it just hurts your head.

[jno]

sorry, OG, ginge already knows he may have it, it comes with the loyalty card and a £5 spend. Whether he can get it is another question - if supplies have run out, for instance.

[baza]

good point AH, would you like fries with that.

[Mamyalynne]

Now you see ,if you didn't wear your spectacles you would bump into more people- necessitating more apologies.

You didn't think that one through did you?