Christine Schoefer
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Our everyday greetings and colloquialisms are so ingrained, we can forget what the words actually mean. Christine Schoefer has this Perspective.
At the Berkeley supermarket, I bagged my groceries and then paid. “Thank you,” I said when the cashier handed me the receipt. “Be safe out there,” he responded, smiling and nodding benevolently as though his words would avert harm from coming my way. An odd good-bye, I thought as I walked back to my car in sunny daylight…