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When 'you too' makes a greeting painfully awkward

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Retail workers throw out polite greetings purely on autopilot to survive their shifts. When you instantly reply with the exact same phrase on a random Tuesday, you basically accept your fate as an awkward disaster who can never return to that store.

When 'you too' makes a greeting painfully awkward
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