Well do you?
I rarely do, because I have such a crappy short term memory.
And do people really appreciate it when they are told that? “Oh yeh [Joe], [Sue} say’s hi!”
I like these easy questions… gives me a chance to post without looking totally dumb.
To answer the OP, yes, I do. Did it yesterday, as it happens. The man I said it to looked pleased to have been thought of in his absence, and I guess that’s how I would feel too. I think that, if I am asked to say hi, it is a bit like being given a note to deliver to someone, and if I failed to pass it on I would feel like I just threw the note away. Of course, that doesn’t mean I always like being asked to pass on messages.
I don’t always. Sometimes it’s just the obligatory “say hi to your mom for me”, and the person doesn’t really want to say hi to my mom, he just knows it’s a nice thing to say.
But if I bump into someone I haven’t seen in a while, and he says “I haven’t seen Person X in ages - say hi to him for me!” then I’ll pass the message along, because Person X will be happy to know he’s been remembered.
No. The only time I’d say it is if it came up in conversation naturally that I spoke to so and so and they said hi. If the hi can’t be reciprocated, what’s the point? I’m not a messenger boy, tell them hi yourself. Besides, usually, they don’t mean it anyway, it’s just a polite thing to say… or so I assume at least.
always. it’s only polite. and, yes, I do appreciate it when someone tells me “hello” for someone else… although it invariable causes an unease. I mean, you can’t very well carry on a conversation through an intermediary. I usually just say “make sure I said a big hello right back” and be done with it.
Never … Once years ago, my dad was in hospital, my mother went into a shop to buy pyjamas for him, I waited outside like the dutiful surly teenager I was. A woman approached and said “hello” I looked at her, didn’t recognise her, thought she wanted to know where the Post Office was (or something) and said “Hello”. We then had this surreal conversation, where she asked after every member of my family up to and including my granddad’s dog. She “signed off” by asking me to say hello to my mother. I had no notion whom this woman was whatsoever, so I told my mother “a woman, blonde hair, this tall said hello”.
My mother didn’t seem to know who she was either, “was it Mrs Murphy?”
“is Mrs Murphy this tall and blond?”
“No. Maybe it was Mrs Johnson?”
(Mrs Johnson is neither this tall nor blonde, nor were any of the other 5 women my mother suggested the woman might be :rolleyes: )
So at the end of the day neither of us had a clue who the woman was. I don’t recall ever meeting her again, and no one apparently told my mother “I was talking to your daughter the other day” …
Generally speaking if someone says to me “say hello to your mother for me” I tell my mother “a woman this tall (insert colour) hair, said hello” we go through the tried and tested “was it Mrs So and So?” (who is never this height/hair colour) I have come to the conclusion my mother is a figment of my imagination, or something 
I second this, except that I’m pretty sure that usually, they do mean it. That doesn’t always provide sufficient incentive for me to pass along the message, though. It definitely sounds like a (possibly imaginary) Seinfeld scene though:
George: Whadda you mean, she didn’t tell you to say ‘hello’ to me?
Jerry: What can I say, George? I guess she had other things on her mind.
George: Well, I would have told you to say ‘hello’ from me!
Jerry: Why don’t you go find her and say ‘hello’ to her face, then?
George: I’m scared.
Oh yeah, sure, and I like it when someone says, John Doe says hello. It’s nice.
Many times when I see a former coworker, I say tell anyone you see from XYZ Company that I said HI.
I always pass along those messages so long as I remember. I know that it always makes me feel good to hear that someone asked after me, so it seems appropriate to pass that feeling on to others.
I do, and did so only last night – I started off a conversation with my best friend with “[name of former suitor] says hi,” just for the WTF value of it. (Said former suitor shows up on IM every couple weeks so we can do another round or two on how there’s no way we can work out a scenario where we both get what we want out of the relationship. During a pause in the latest rerun of the issues, he asked after my best friend and told me to tell him “hi.”)
But I’ll do it anyway, even when I’m not trying to freak someone out – it’s nice to be remembered. And I’ll ask someone to "tell him/her that twicks says `hi.’ "
Yep, usually. Depends I guess on the situation, but usually I try to pass it on.
I do when I remember, but more often than not I’ll forget entirely.
I appreciate it when it hear a “hi” passed on from someone so I really should make more of an effort to remember these things.
Hey McDeath! I dinna know there were other Dopers in my neck-of-the woods.
Everyone in (or Near) Chase says to tell ya…“HI” 
If I remember. Usually I don’t (not in the malicious sense)…
If I’m on the phone with someone and they say, “Hey, tell Cody I said hi,” and he’s sitting on the couch, I’ll pass it along. Other than that, I don’t think anyone’s ever asked me to say hi to anyone for them.
Odd… I was thinking about this a few days ago but wasn’t around a computer to post it…
And my answer is no, unless I know there is a real reason I should, such as if the person were in a fight with the other and is trying to fix relations and asks me to say hello to someone (has happened a couple of times) or if they just havn’t seen whoever I’m being asked to say hi to in a very long time. And later when I see the person I don’t actively think “oh, they said hello to that person, but it wasn’t important”, rather, knowing it was just a hello out of politeness, I’ve forgotten it by that time.
I don’t think my not saying hello for some people has ever come up later on because the polite hellos just don’t care about it enough either to ask if someone said hello for them.
I should preview… “And later, if the person said hello just out of politeness, when I see that person I don’t…”