"No problem"

[MJ5150]

I'll say 'no problem', but may switch it up with 'you got it' or 'sure thing' in response to thank you.
I may also respond with 'you sir/ma'am are very (or quite) welcome'.
If you say 'thanks', I'll usually say 'welcs'.

-Mike

 

[Ox Boris]

I love whelks.

 

[Chicory Blue]

The time I did in customer service pretty much baked it into me to respond to all thanks with "and thank you!" for the rest of my life regardless of whether it's genuine or even remotely situationally appropriate.

It's a reflex and I can't help it and I'm not sorry. Be well!

--^@

 

[Stumbo]

For me, "no problem" is short for "it was no problem for you to take my time, money, resources and flush them down the drain. As long as you are okay, that's all that matters".

Yes, I'm off your freakin' lawn!

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

Sometimes somebody will give you a clenched fist with a "thumb up".. Supposed to signify " Good! Great! Approval!"..

But back in the day it meant "Sit down and rotate"...

Why do people need to add the "o" to "no problem" and make it into "no problemo"?

 

[HaphAsSard]

Does anybody say "don't mention it" at all/any more? Or has it been there in my L2 folder wasting space for decades?

Anyway, just another option for ya folks. Think nothing of it, not at all, and fuggetaboutit

 

[Tom Bomb]

Not a worry in the world.

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

ZenG
Here's another one for ya.

 

[Chicory Blue]

I have noticed though, curiously enough, that the last several times I've ordered fast food, whenever I said "thank you very much," the drive-through operator dryly repeated my total to me a second time, having apparently mistaken me for asking "how much?"

Now, I'm certain this is predominantly the product of a softpoken mumbler with a baked-in Jersey accent getting filtered through a cheap voice box, but still, it depresses me just a bit to know that given a garbled statement ending in the word "much" these poor fast food folks would sooner presume I was clarifying the exact price of my midnight milkshake than thanking them for taking my order.

Are manners really in such short supply these days?

--^@

 

[Ox Boris]

Does anybody say "don't mention it"

Only in this context:
[I let someone into traffic]
[Other driver doesn't flap a hand in acknowledgment]
<Pleasantly, genuinely> No, don't mention it.
<With rising gorge> Oh, you effin' didn't! Wanker!

Makes me feel better...

 

[catcauphonic]

Only in this context:
[I let someone into traffic]
[Other driver doesn't flap a hand in acknowledgment]
<Pleasantly, genuinely> No, don't mention it.
<With rising gorge> Oh, you effin' didn't! Wanker!

Makes me feel better...

When they don't give the wave of gratitude/ acknowledgment, now we got a problem! Last time i extend a courtesy to THAT car

 

[Tom Bomb]

Don't give it another thought.… It's all good

 

[Funky Ghost]

I'll say 'no problem', but may switch it up with 'you got it' or 'sure thing' in response to thank you.
I may also respond with 'you sir/ma'am are very (or quite) welcome'.
If you say 'thanks', I'll usually say 'welcs'.

-Mike

Welcs?

I'm so busting this out at work tomorrow.

 

[Gorn]

Around here I've noticed many of the women folk respond with an uh huh.

 

[RustyAxe]

Am I just a curmudgeon? Get off my lawn.

Yeah, but so am I. I feel the same way, but language is a very malleable thing. While I also think "it better be no problem, cuz that's what they pay you for" ... if I can remember that the person saying "no problem" really MEANS "you're welcome" I can live with it. No problem.

 

[guy n. cognito]

It's a pleasantry, norhing more. There's enough things in life to actually get mad about....I can't imagine making this one of them.

 

[Ant Illington]

Perhaps you pettifoggers will be happy to know that the robots will be programmed to give a whole variety of nice replies when you spend your Universal Basic Income at the bread lines owned by Facebook, Amazon and Google. i.e., find something serious to be concerned about.

 

[Yango]

Well, perhaps it really is no problem.

Just accept it as a non-problematic response, and there will indeed be no problem.

 

[Oddly]

Am I just a curmudgeon?

Almost certainly.
Probably also the first to complain if, after saying thanks, you get no response at all...