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Your waiter says "Enjoy your meal!" and you blurt out "You too!" even though they're not eating — is that actually embarrassing, or is everyone just overthinking a reflex?
🏆 Leading: Nobody actually cares — it's a scripted social reflex like saying "good, you?" when someone asks how you are, and the waiter forgot about it before they reached the next table.

Nobody actually cares — it's a scripted social reflex like saying "good, you?" when someone asks how you are, and the waiter forgot about it before they reached the next table. is leading so far with 57%.

It's genuinely awkward and you should just say thanks — "you too" makes zero literal sense and everyone clocks it when it happens. is second. On this few votes the split is still anyone's guess.

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Your waiter says "Enjoy your meal!" and you blurt out "You too!" even though they're not eating — is that actually embarrassing, or is everyone just overthinking a reflex?
57%
Leading answer
Nobody actually cares — it's a scripted social reflex like saying "good, you?" when someone asks how you are, and the waiter forgot about it before they reached the next table.
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It's genuinely awkward and you should just say thanks — "you too" makes zero literal sense and everyone clocks it when it happens.
Nobody actually cares — it's a scripted social reflex like saying "good, you?" when someone asks how you are, and the waiter forgot about it before they reached the next table.
It's only embarrassing because you replay it in your head afterward — in the actual moment it passes in half a second and nobody even notices.

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