Aplologising

[ufkacbln]

Out for a late lunch,and just ordered a couple of drinks

Bar person asks for £5.37

Look in wallet and don't have change so hand over £20 pound note.... and apologise for not having change


WHY..........?

I have no responsibility to pay the exact money


What have you apologised fir when there's absolutely no reason to do so?

 

[mjr]

I'm sorry but I can't think of any examples right now

 

[TrishE]

I've been known to say sorry when it's not my fault like if someone bumps into me

 

[jefmcg]

Please apologise for your subject. I won't call it a spelling error, it's worse than that.
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I went out to lunch with a friend in Melbourne, where coffee is king. She apologised to the barista because she wanted her latte hot. Apparently she'd been previously subject to sarcasm and/or abuse for wanting her coffee at a higher temperature than usual.

Previously she'd apologised repeatedly to me for not being able to come to my place with lunch for me as I had requested. Poor lady, withholding father and then just a few years later an abusive husband has left her self esteem in tatters.

 

[Drago]

Horse walks into a bar, orders a pint of beer.

Barman thinks 'hey ho, a horse doesn't know how much beer costs' and charges him £20 for the pint.

After a while the barman gets curious and says 'don't see many horses in here.'

'I'm not surprised with the price of your beer' replies the horse.

 

[steve50]

I have been known to apologise to my dog after having tripped over him even if it was his fault for laying in a stupid place in the first place.

 

[jefmcg]

Oh, on the other side of things ... I went to a charity shop to hand donate some things. From my point of view, the shop is doing me a favour - it feels so much better to give things for reuse than put them in landfill. Anyway, as I handed a box to a worker there, who I assume was a volunteer, I realised that I hadn't said thank you, so I did. "THANK YOU", I said loudly to his retreating form. He responded with "Thank you" and I realised - he didn't think I was thanking him, he thought I was chiding him for not thanking me. By then he was out of reach in the back part of the store, and I was just a bitchy middle class woman who was demanding a stranger thank her for shoot she couldn't sell and didn't want.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Never aplologise, never epxlain.

 

[NorthernDave]

I've been known to say sorry when it's not my fault like if someone bumps into me

Me too. Sorry about that.

 

[jefmcg]

I've been known to say sorry when it's not my fault like if someone bumps into me

I've done the test to become a UK citizen. It was multiple choice questions that you had to study to answer. It really should have just been having someone bump you on the way into the test centre, and you only pass if you say "sorry"

 

[User482]

Out for a late lunch,and just ordered a couple of drinks

Bar person asks for £5.37

Look in wallet and don't have change so hand over £20 pound note.... and apologise for not having change


WHY..........?

I have no responsibility to pay the exact money


What have you apologised fir when there's absolutely no reason to do so?

The bar person has no obligation to serve you the drinks, either.

 

[alicat]

I have no responsibility to pay the exact money

Yes, strictly speaking you do so it's only good manners if you tender a large note.

 

[bruce1530]

One of the hidden reasons for saying “Sorry, I don’t have anything smaller” when handing over a large note is to reinforce that it is (say) a 20, and you expect change of a 20 and not a 10....

There is a “real ale” pub in glasgow that i used to frequent - it was customary to apologise if you ordered lager...

 

[Dayvo]

There is a “real ale” pub in glasgow that i used to frequent - it was customary to apologise if you ordered lager...

Why would anyone want to order and, presumably, drink lager?

 

[subaqua]

Why would anyone want to order and, presumably, drink lager?

To put a bad taste in mouth that good beer can wash out ?

Slaking a thirst ?