• Sea_pop@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    One morning, a few weeks back, I made eye contact with someone who was obviously having a rough morning. I knew I shouldn’t engage but I also didn’t want to ignore them, so I gave a quick good morning. They promptly responded, “fuck your morning.”

    I think of that interaction every day.

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    14 hours ago

    The woke left is trying to kill morning. Now you have to say “happy arbitrary ante meridiem temporal designation.”

    Morning America Good Again!

  • vortexsurfer@lemmy.world
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    Reminds me of my Polish colleague who once arrived at the office and said: "I would say good morning. But it’s not a good morning. "

    The previous night our manager had taken the team out for dinner and drinks, paid for by the company. It wasn’t a good morning for any of us 😁

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    I like to stick with a simple “hello” so I don’t have to keep track of time (e.g. during meetings across timezones or even when I’m so scatterbrained that day that I lose track of local time) and it’s also less presumptuous.

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      The worst is being corrected.

      “Good morning, how are you?”

      looks at watch “it’s 12:01pm so it’s good afternoon”

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      15 hours ago

      People have accepted that ‘morning’ is my standard greeting regardless of the time of day. It’s even become a thing everyone says within my close friend group.