Not have a good day. Not enjoy the rest of your day.
Was this how people ended zoom calls during lockdown or something? Some influencer on TikTok signs off with it? A generational thing? Did I just miss the memo?
Sometime after sunrise.
I have been saying that for about 40 years, can’t be the only one.
Nothing I wish for you is going to affect anything that’s already happened in your day
Never heard anyone say that.
I just don’t notice these differences. I notice the genuine feeling behind it. I remember if they actually mean “have a good weekend” or if they are just BSing.
Yeah I was thinking this too. Sounds worse than the normal phrase.
I had to make the switch to saying that because I work nights and I got tired of switching between “have a good morning” and “have a good night” lol
I’m almost 60 and I have heard that from as long as I can remember. “Have a good one” though…I first heard that in the early 2000’s and it sounded stupid then. And it sounds stupid now.
Have a good none, Bob
😀
Wait, you think ‘have a good one’ sounds dumber than ‘have a good rest of your day’?
I do. Have a good what? Date?Sandwich? Shit? They have no idea what I’m up to next.
Isn’t that the great part? No matter what you’re up to they’re rooting for you
Context clues elude
I’ve been using that phrase with people I’m talking to in a different time zone for years.
I don’t know, but I wish people would stop telling me what to do.
They’re not telling you what to do though
“It’s (hope you) have a good day/rest of day/night etc”
Don’t tell me what to do! I tell anyone I want to have a nice rest of their day.
At least it’s short term. “Have a good rest of your day. I don’t give a shit about your tomorrow though”
that sounds clunky. Have a good one, have a good day, and enjoy the rest of your day all sound normal to me. Don’t think I have heard “have a good rest of your day” but it sounds like a smashing together of “have a good day” and “enjoy the rest of your day”
I say it because I talk to people all over the world.
Dunno but I tend to respond “You too if you can!”
“Have a good day” sounds too cliche to me, at least when I’m at work. It’s like saying “we apologize for the inconvenience” where it feels like an insincere, canned phrase.
I feel like it changes the meaning of “day”. In some contexts, day is the daylight hours… but in this context it is from when you woke up to when you went to sleep. So it feels a bit more timezone agnostic. But only a tiny bit. This would be more ture if you were comparing have a good afternoon to have a good day.
But the real answer. Someone just didn’t like saying the same thing over and over, so threw in some variation. Someone else who wanted to suck up to them started using it. Others just happened to follow.
Are “enjoy the rest of your day” and “have a good rest of your day” different enough that one sounds odd but not the other?
It doeth sound a little off, even though it’s very minor.
Seriously?
Yes
This is the first I’m hearing it, and I feel like I’ll always be just a little bit sadder now that I know its a thing.
