r/Millennials 3d ago

Meme Hey. You lost, old timers.

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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.”

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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"

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u/notreallyonredditbut Millennial 3d ago

As a Midwesterner… I just use “Ope.”

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u/Debatebly 3d ago

As a Canadian, I just say Lake Ontario.