Mind your manners

The other end of the situation is that proper etiquette tends to have gotten a bit screwy in common usage. For instance, if someone offers to do something for you, you thank them for it. But it's been my observation that everyone always thanks them when whatever it is they're doing has been finished. Take for example cooking dinner. Someone says that they'll cook dinner. Everyone says "oh wow that's so nice thank you, etc." Then when dinner is cooked, again, "wow this is great thank you!" I never got the redundancy.

Similarly with offering and taking money or gifts. Everyone refuses persistently. Most people tend to get offended though if you DON'T eventually take their offer, and people also seem to get offended if you take their offer without at first refusing. It's all very confusing.

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