Have anyone else noticed someone who is pissed about something smiling and saying “God Bless You” in a somewhat sarcastic tone.
I’ve noticed it a few times as an observer and it happened to me the other day.
We buy used music gear at the music store I work at. A guy came in with a older drum machine in just okay condition. I plugged it in to test it and a few pads didn’t seem to be working. He said it was just how it was programed and it worked fine. I pointed out that I had to be convinced it worked fine. We spent a couple of minutes checking it out and I decided it wasn’t worth any more time , and told him I didn’t want it, and wasn’t going to make an offer.
He began gathering his stuff and said “God Bless You sir” but his attitude felt like I had offended him by saying no thanks.
I didn’t respond so he repeated it “I said God Bless You”
“Thanks , you too”
He walked out looked pretty irritated saying, “really, nothing but good things and joy to You”
“Okay thanks…”
Has anyone else encountered this kind of thing? I suppose it might be a positive way to deal with anger but it sure felt like a cloaked "F**k You.
I don’t say god bless you, but if I’m dealing with a really difficult and negative person who is trying to get a reaction out of me I smile as big as I can and say the most positive things imaginable. This typically infuriates the other party and I really enjoy that.
Gosh mister, I’m sure sorry! I must be acting like a real jerk for you to treat me like this! What?! You hope I die? Boy, that’s odd, I only hope YOU have a wonderful day! Well, no, I’m not going to go fuck myself. I’m going to go have lunch. Would you like to come? I’m buying!
On a related note. In the deep south “bless your heart” or “bless their heart” can either mean what it sounds like or it can mean something Ed Zotti would have banned from even the Pit.
The louder and more cheerfully I say this at the end of a call at work, the more I’m secretly wishing nonspecific harm on my caller. What I really mean is, may you stub your toe on a coffee table! May your hangnails bother you incessantly throughout the day! May you wake up with your cat’s butt 2 inches from your face! May your soup be the wrong temperature at dinner tonight!
Just about anything with a literal nice meaning can mean the opposite, depending upon the intonation. I’ve never, ever heard either “God bless you,” or “Bless your heart,” uttered with that kind of connotation–but there are countless other niceties I could say the same thing about. An earlier comment about “Bless your heart.” with some subsequent “Huh?” kind of remarks.
Sort of, but I interpret it more along the lines of “I want to say something mean, but I’m biting my tongue for the sake of politeness / being a good person.”
I wonder if he was throwing in the ‘God Bless You’ to show that he was a ‘good Christian’, therefore you should have believed him when he said the drum pads worked fine, therefore you should have immediately changed your mind and bought the drums. Or maybe you were supposed to feel bad for not believing a Christian?
The second ‘God Bless You’ was really: “Shame on you! I bet you’re not a Christian because you did not respond to my ‘God Bless you’, you heathen! I’m going to say it again, maybe your Satanic heart will burst in response. Oh yeah, and fuck you!” So, yes, you’re right, it did mean ‘Fuck You’.
The repeating of the ‘God Bless You’ just because you hadn’t immediately responded strikes me as him trying to prove some sort of point.
My favorite example was in the 2009 Star Trek, where Spock tells the Vulcan Academy board to “Live Long and Prosper” in a tone that was, more clearly than if he had said it right out, “Fuck You and The Horse You Rode In On!”
No, I’m willing to bet it was simply that he was upset and following the teachings of the Bible. The Bible says that Christians are supposed to show Christ’s love and pray for blessings for their enemy because what does it prove if they only pray for blessings for their friends.
But, by demanding a response from OP and getting his cranky on… I’m sure his heavenly score card was not improved by that interaction and his Christian deed got called for attitude.
Yeah I thought that too. Then he kept going on as he left, obviously upset.
It reminded me of another incodent. We had a couple come in looking for business cleaning our floors. They agreed to do a one time job at a reduced rate in hopes of a continued contract. The guy brings in his biffer and runs it around the floors. Right after he’s done it looks good, but a few hours later the initial shine wears off and it looks no different, so the manager calls him to say we’ve decided not to use them. He’s a little mad and looking for an explanation.
“Well, we just didn’t like your work”
A day or two later they both come in with attitude wantiong someone to explain why they didn’t get the contract. We’re busy and there’s nobody available to talk to them. After they stew a while the manager says again,
“Sorry, we just didn’t like your work and we’re not going to use you. What else is there to say?
The wife says , " Well you should not be messing with God’s people” or something to that effect. As if we havce somehow wronged the children of God and will pay the price.
As they leave she waves her hand in the air saying “You should not be messing with God’s people” Our outspoken salesperson yells “Stop doing crappy work in the name of God”
So, I did get the feeling that it might be “You have wronged one of God’s people , but I’ll say, God Bless you because I’m Godly”
Except I didn’t. You offered something for sale and I said no thanks, that’s all.
It’s only an opinion but it seemed like he missed the part where Jesus talked about what’s really in your heart.
It’s unfortuante but we do get people who really need the money and we still have to turn them away because it’s a business. We can’t buy everything that comes in.
That’s hilarious. I had a customer who bought a dirt cheap guitar case, and wanted to reurn it after the airlines had destroyed it. {although it did save his guitar}
I told him no. He had specifically picked out the cheap one that was not airline approved and they had destroyed it not us.
As he left he yelled “Go fuck yourself” I just waved and said “No thank you” in my most innocent polite voice.
Our manager loves to use the invisable manager ploy, rather than continue to argue with people.
“You’re right, I’d like to help you, and I would but my boss is really strict about this. I agree it’s a bad policy but there’s nothing I can do.”
Yeah, just had a guy come in, no appointment yet again, because he’s too special to pick up the phone and we should just drop everything and spend yet another hour with him.
Rather than bitch about how we tell him every single bloody time to ring first, I just said I had been away and was busy catching up. Which was the truth.
“That’s a very poor excuse.” He said and laughed.
“If you say so.” I replied politely as I filled out the appoinment card and waved him goodbye. “I’ll see you on Wednesday.”
I, of course, meant 'Bless You", Bless you sideways with a rusty dildo.
Or maybe you were supposed to feel bad for not believing a Christian?