I’m getting the feeling a lot of folks in these parts get annoyed an awful lot. One e-mail in response to Dreher’s thread (though I’d be lying if I said I never had a similar thought–but I’ll never lose sleep over it):

Rod Dreher’s post about young people no longer saying “sir” and “ma’am” prompts me to add another gripe I have about young people’s speech habits: the replacement of “You’re welcome” with “No problem.” What’s that all about? Everywhere I go, it’s “Thank you.” “No problem.” Drives me crazy.