So I am at work this afternoon out front taking a smoke break with 2 of my employees.

[stopdiggin]

58. I suppose its amatter of picking your battles.

You can go all 'proactive' and 'instruct' someone as to how they are crossing boundaries - if you feel it worth the effort - and you don't mind the fact that you've now become as offensive (and as big a bore) as the original transgressor. Do you have a similar reaction to someone who greets you with a 'namaste', a 'blessed be', or a 'walk in peace?'

I'll continue to maintain (in the large majority of cases) that it is easier, entirely more civil - and, in the end, much more beneficial - to respond to these minor, and mostly unintentional, slights with a, "You too, brother" N' then I'm moving on.