Yes worries.
"No worries," the zombified chant of the sleeping guilt trip.
“No worries.”
A common response sets out to ease your mind.
Or is it a casually placed cross leaning in the corner to crucify you against the thing you didn’t do?
I wasn’t worried before; circumstances made it impossible for me to bring the deviled eggs to the picnic, but when I make the announcement that the eggs are to be absent the absolution from the unqualified priest comes,
“No worries.”
This sparks in my mind from the kindling of the suggestion, should I be worried? It had not dawned on me before. It had not dawned on me in a similar way that I had not before realized that when introduced to someone named both Dawn and April at the same time, the two unsimilar sounding names became indistinguishable.
So you are Dawn…And you are APRIL?
This is so hard.
The deviled eggs are not here and now, NOW I am worried.
What is a proper response or comeback to,
NO WORRIES?
One pundit proposed, “Go get your hacky sack.”
I would argue that it is an appropriately active nonsequiteur. Someone tells me not to do something I wasn’t doing, I tell them to go get something they don’t have. It’s harmless but intentionally confusing.
If they do have a hacky sack handy all of a sudden everything makes sense. It becomes just a purposeless back and forth-Like Hacky sack.
Next time someone doesn’t do the thing they were supposed to do and you think they may be worried, how about having a meaningful conversation.
I read advice columns and I know people love scripts for minor confrontation, so here it goes!
“I noticed you didn’t bring the deviled eggs today and it was something maybe you thought would disappoint me. The truth is, I don’t like them, I don’t need them, and I don’t care. Please go on with your life as if this didn’t happen.”
I feel like that’s pretty great.
Please leave a comment with your ideas of what we could be saying instead of “no worries” or if you have a different opinion on the matter.
I’m inspired.
Here some hacky sacks of quotes that I think are pretty good from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar who I think does not play sitar.
WORK IT.
“Ava, You have no right. “
“You’re damn right.”
Will circle back and touch base later so we can synergize and realign. After drilling down and having a conversation around it. Thanks!
Great newsletter-ready to go work..
“Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.” Cormac MacCarthy
You forgot to include this one, so “go get your hacky sack.”