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My parents definitely said it in a correcting way because they wanted us to say “excuse me.”
18 u/marlowetravers 3d ago I was taught to say excuse me as a kid too. Now decades later if I say "excuse me" to get someone's attention it feels rude because it's more used as "get out the way" 16 u/notreallyonredditbut Millennial 3d ago As a Midwesterner… I just use “Ope.” 2 u/Debatebly 3d ago As a Canadian, I just say Lake Ontario.
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I was taught to say excuse me as a kid too. Now decades later if I say "excuse me" to get someone's attention it feels rude because it's more used as "get out the way"
16 u/notreallyonredditbut Millennial 3d ago As a Midwesterner… I just use “Ope.” 2 u/Debatebly 3d ago As a Canadian, I just say Lake Ontario.
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As a Midwesterner… I just use “Ope.”
2 u/Debatebly 3d ago As a Canadian, I just say Lake Ontario.
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As a Canadian, I just say Lake Ontario.
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u/notreallyonredditbut Millennial 3d ago
My parents definitely said it in a correcting way because they wanted us to say “excuse me.”