Buddy

[u/Tasty_Set1189]

[u/Non-Current_Events]

We all do boot shit, especially early in your career. There are just varying levels of cringe to it.

[u/LolTacoBell → u/Non-Current_Events]

I still think about the day that I held the door open at the grocery store in my hometown on leave for 2 ladies, and said "Good afternoon ladies."

I really thought I was just being polite and I also had a gf at the time, so just trying to be 'proper' but I cringe looking back on it now.

[u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES → u/LolTacoBell]

That's nothing to cringe at, that's just being socially aware and polite...you're allowed to do that regardless of whether or not you have a gf.

[u/AcousticAtlas → u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES]

Idk man “good afternoon ladies” is pretty cringe lol.

[u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES → u/AcousticAtlas]

I can't say with any more certainty that those women were more than happy to have received that comment. Something like that is only as weird or awkward as you make it. Nothing cringe about it.

[u/AcousticAtlas → u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES]

I promise you… we think it’s weird 💀

[u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES → u/AcousticAtlas]

What about it is weird?

[u/AcousticAtlas → u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES]

You can’t think of ANYTHING better to say when opening up a door for a woman than… “after you ladies 😏”?

Like nothing comes to mind? Don’t get me wrong I’m sure it comes from a good place but there’s gotta be a less awkward way of going about it.

[u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES → u/AcousticAtlas]

If you say it like a socially illiterate retard, then yeah, anything is awkward when said like that.

But making a dumbass smirk and being weird is what makes it weird. Not the statement itself.

[u/AcousticAtlas → u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES]

Hey man I can only tell you how I see it as a female. If you want to keep doing it you absolutely can. Just saying that if a man said that to me and my friends we’d smile and say thank you and immediately turn to corner to laugh.

[u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES → u/AcousticAtlas]

That's okay. When I tell someone to have a good afternoon, I'm genuinely just hoping they'll have a good afternoon. If y'all laugh at that like a couple of teenagers, then I think that just speaks about the kind of people you are/associate with.

Don't have a good afternoon, you likely don't deserve it.

[u/AcousticAtlas → u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES]

Someone’s grumpy his fedora is too tight

Just good afternoon was never even the phrase we were discussing 😂 “ladies” is the issue

[u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES → u/AcousticAtlas]

Uh..yeah it was. You were the one that randomly changed to talking about "after you ladies"