"have a blessed day"

"Oh, I plan to." (dark & meaningful look)

xxxp - I say Gesundheit for that very reason

I have a friend this used to bug, but he grew up in an obnoxiously oppressive "religious" household where his parents policed his behavior and were generally shitty to him. I doubt he cares either way these days, but it definitely wore on him when he moved to Louisiana for a while.

Yeah, it's not like I lose sleep or get actively angry at the thought of this but I do find things like this a little annoying even though I know that 98% of the time it's totally innocuous.

"Have a devil of a day!"

it is 99% people just wishing you well in the nicest way they know how, and 1% passive aggressive people who are trying to throw you in the depths of hellfire

they denied Him three times, you know

Have a non-damned day

I think my problem with it is that it feels like something someone very deliberately came up with to "combat secularism" associated with "have a nice day," sort of like adding the word "God" to our money and our pledge of allegiance. I doubt it was in common usage prior to fairly recently, either here or in any of Christendom.

Just say nice. Have a nice day. It's simple.

have a good one

namaste

lol just had a conversation with a friend about saying namaste instead

Turn it around on them with a convivial "blessed be".

I don't mind being wished a blessed day. It sounds labored when you could just say nice instead, though.

My favorite is when I get an added "sugar" or "baby" or "darlin'".

Maybe try to out-religion them, like "May your day be such that Christ did not suffer in vain"

lol

I'm gonna start answering "And also with you..."

I always feel embarrassed when someone tells me to have a nice day, it seems sort of presumptuous somehow? but it's not as common here in the UK, I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tdq-e4nqY

tortoises all the way down, my friend

we do need more britisher takes on this xxp

"I should never intrude into someone's life such to tell them what kind of day to have!"

have a nice blood

^^^^^

Yeah I don't think that's nearly as common in England. I've heard people say, "Oh everyone is so weirdly friendly in shops here" meaning the US. It's just not a thing there i don't think.

I'm no great fan of "Have a nice day," fwiw Something about it bespeaks capitalist malaise, like "Go in niceness. Don't expect any meaning or personal connection to enter your life, let alone redemption, but I hope things are nice. I hope traffic isn't too bad and you enjoy your snacks and your favorite HBO drama tonight and manage ok on 6 hours of sleep tomorrow at your dull job."

OK, that's just weird. I say things like "have a nice night!" to co-workers when I'm leaving work but it's because I genuinely want them to have a nice evening which isn't related to personal connection or redemption and jesus you are way way over thinking this one MA.

May Jesus accompany you to the pub

And I guess I do mean that I hope they don't hit awful traffic or that things go smoothly and are peaceful for them until I see them next but I guess because that's all I really want for myself at the end of a long day.

IRL of course I just say "have a nice day" or "have a good one." I only overthink things like this on ILX.

suuuuuuuuuuuuuure

;)

have a nice blood

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^^^^^

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^^^^^

I'm in the mid-Atlantic, regionally. I haven't heard this construction very much, to be honest. Most times I can remember hearing it, it's been from black women. It's a little surprising, but on the whole I don't have a problem with it and just reply back with "Thank you! You too."

When I leave work I say "See you" or some equivalent because that's what I anticipate happening the next day.

When store clerks say "Have a nice day," I usually say, "Thanks, you too." When they say "Have a blessed day," I make a noise to myself like Sideshow Bob stepping on a rake.

Someone tells me "have a nice day" and I tell them "no" and hold their gaze for a good ten seconds until they've fully internalized their effrontery.

If somebody told me to have a blessed day, I'd literally piss on their shoes while telling them God is a fiction

nah mah stay day

It's a little surprising, but on the whole I don't have a problem with it and just reply back with "Thank you! You too."

THIS IS HOW THEY GET YOU

When "have a nice day!" became mandatory for retail employees in the USA, it felt extremely artificial and uncomfortable for a lot of the customers because everyone knew it was coerced by management and we were being coerced into accepting it. Since then it has been normalized by familiarity and doesn't feel weird any more.

I agree that "have a blessed day" would also feel weird and mildly coercive to me, too, if I began hearing it often (it hasn't been taken up here in Oregon yet), in that it has just a bit of the flavor of Mormons baptizing dead people; iow an involuntary imposition of a particular religious pov where it was not invited. After the thousandth time, it would probably just become part of the expected social pattern and nbd.

A woman who's probably the kindest and most generous person in my workplace has 'have a blessed day' in her email signature. I don't know how many more times I'm going to have to go to HR to get her fired.

Would welcome the return of 'may thy god go with thee'

we do need more britisher takes on this xxp

LOL US religious fanatics. I had never heard of this phrase until this thread!

I was genuinely kind of touched the first couple of times a Walgreens employee said 'be well' to me before I caught on.

it is always phrased as a command, which is unavoidably a bit aggressive.

x-post - hahaha awww!

"has 'have a blessed day' in her email signature"

Does she also have her email background set to fluffy clouds and her name in signature font? Seriously though - that would bother me. It's very unprofessional.

I feel weird because I don't have a good thing to say when someone sneezes that doesn't sound religiousy or rude

I say Gesundheit for that very reason

This is what I do because I've got such a knee-jerk opposition to anything supernatural in any way but it makes me feel like kind of a fedora-wearing militant atheist asshole. But less of a asshole than not saying anything at all apparently.

I say Gesundheit for that very reason

That's brilliant!

"Did you want the receipt in the bag or with you?"
"With me, please."
"There you are. And have a blessed day!"
"Gesundheit!"

"goodbye" means essentially the same thing as "have a blessed day" btw

LOL at this thread.

In general it's a pretty innocuous thing just someone trying to be a nice person but can def see it coming across as religious humblebragging (file w the more condescending "Bless your heart").

stay blessed in the free world, y'all

^ killer shot of love outtake

I get real blessed on the reg

I don't think I've ever had anyone say this to me. It must be a Southern thing. It's weird and I don't like it.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB),

I am near Washington DC and hear it the most from African-American co-workers. I am used to it.

there's something about the sentence construction that casts it in a faintly absurd light

like "have a ______ day" is just a lego set of possible wishes, into which "blessed" has taken root and grown

like 80 years from now you might run into people saying "have a Trump day!" in homage to america's greatest president

this is totally my own fucked up attitude towards white 'murican xtianity but when someone wishes christ's blessings on me or whatever i feel like i'm letting the blesser down when later that day i curse or have premarital sex or think a mean thought.

like, would the blesser revoke the blessing if they had known my plans for that day?

I don't really mind if people say this to me, or even if they say "God bless". I mean these days, I meet so many petulant shits, someone being nice to me is kind of refreshing.

I only mind when someone decides to go on some sort of religious rant with me unprovoked, which lately seems to happen all the time as my face must convey "please, unload all of your baggage on me" to people.

they'd shake their heads sadly and maybe even put a dagger in with "bless his heart"

xpost

the modern usage of #blessed is just "i'm lucky" so i guess it's you, the putative blessee, get to choose in your own mind how to divvy up what percent of it is "may destiny smile upon you" and what proportion constitutes the remaining, residual jeezo-speak

#humbled

#koritfw

#notallcashiers

#dootdooladootdoo...

'Bless your heart' was, I always thought, Southern-lady code for 'fuck you'.

In the UK, when someone is inept or a child does something childlike, there's 'aw, bless!' where nobody using or hearing it assigns religious intent.

"bless your eyes" is the most sickly variant I've come across

'Bless your heart' was, I always thought, Southern-lady code for 'fuck you'.

I hear this a lot but I feel like this aspect of it has been way overblown

it's often like "oh that unfortunate person, how could they have known" but in any case it can sound v condescending v easily

"god'll get you for that"

Hear this shit all the time