Is it an English thing ?

Franbern

I always say 'Please' and 'Thank You' to Alexa!!!

So do I and I feel hurt if she doesn't say 'Anytime'.

No I usually say ‘oh flip’ if I bang into doors 😂
I know exactly what you mean though.

I worked in an office once where one of the women who was not English used to tell me off for saying 'Sorry to bother you but......' She said that I do not need to apologise. I carried on doing it and still do it.

It’s about being polite, although I must admit I am far from polite when my computer doesn’t do as it should.

Granniesunite

I see this very much as a human “thing” it’s normal behaviour in my opinion.

Just as smiling and saying goodmorning/goodevening is too.

I’ve experienced this in my many travels all over the world.

Excellent!! We are all “normal”, whatever that is 🤣😂

i think i have always talked to things may have inherited it from my mum who also had a strange habit of naming everything; ie the room heater was Cuthbert, the woodlouse who lived by it was Sid etc, not many things in our house did not inherit a name!
since being alone as i often do not see people a lot i natter away to all sorts of innate objects often spell out the jobs to them ie
right washer first then you second dishwasher or do you want to go first?
i think the dog is glad that i have been talking to objects as he was getting ear ache from me keep nattering to him

It was a bit tongue in the cheek about the English thing….

But yes I always thank the bus driver as I get off, (is that not normal, everyone does here) and yes I always apologise whether it’s me to blame or not it just comes out my mouth without thinking.

At the moment the wind is making all sorts of things rattle in the house and I ve told them all off and told them to stop annoying me, trouble is they don’t take a scrap of notice.

I m looking after a big plant for my grandaughter at the moment and I talk to it every day and tell it not to dare die on me before I hand it back.

I’m becoming more apologetic as I get older. Yesterday a man in the fish shop asked me if it was my turn next, I said yes please 🙄 Iast week I apologised to one of those robot cleaners in the supermarket !

Erica23

I’m becoming more apologetic as I get older. Yesterday a man in the fish shop asked me if it was my turn next, I said yes please 🙄 Iast week I apologised to one of those robot cleaners in the supermarket !

🤣🤣
I have backed into something like a lamp post etc., occasionally and said sorry to it.

Hmm, you are all so much better than me. When I bump into things I tend to swear!

I realise I’ve lied when saying that I dont talk to inanimate objects. I’ve just come in from pruning roses and tidying up after the storms and realise I actually talk to “stony Duncan” a statue of my beloved Cairn who died nearly 3 years ago.

I talk to the birds that I feed regularly and ,you know what, they talk back! Im quite good at raven noises now. I also have miaow sessions with the cats- Inam good at imitations and sometimes we ‘ chat’ for quite a while. Probably we are swearing

MT62

No I usually say ‘oh flip’ if I bang into doors 😂
I know exactly what you mean though.

A bit stronger if I hurt myself