# Manners These Days

**Hairdresser, as she returns some brushes to Shay, my hairdresser**:
Thanks for that Shay.\
**Shay, my hairdresser**: That’s all right.

Have you noticed how these days the usual response to an expression of
thanks is not _You’re welcome_ or _My pleasure_ but _That’s all right_,
_No worries_ or _That’s okay_? Why even the below-stairs staff have
succumbed to this. Just the other week a mere _serving wench_ shot me a
breezy _That’s okay_ after I thanked her for removing my dirty plates.

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I was most amused to discover this morning that PE teachers, who wear
sneakers and sporty clothes to school, wear the exact same clothes to PE
teachers’ conferences. Do they wear the same to malls, to the cinema, to
weddings?