Well - do you? I talk to my Robobin when he opens automatically if I go too near him and the tunic I am wearing gets within his magic eye, telling him that he did not need to open. I say "thank you" to him after he has closed. Actually I thank him after I have wanted him to open. But I have now turned him 45° anti-clockwise so I can reach over him without him opening though so I no longer need to talk to him, but not wanting him to feel out of it I still thank him for opening when I want him to do so. I also talk to ThreeBees. ThreeBees is my large, tall, upright freezer [because he is Big, Beautiful and his make is Blomberg]. Why do I talk to ThreeBees? Because if he thinks his door has been open too long he beep beep beeps at me until I close the door. And if I am putting things in to freeze or packing things away, I need his door open, so I tell him, politely of course, to shut up! Do you think I am a bit odd?
In the days when I had milk delivered, I always used to apologize to the milk bottles when I put them out on the doorstep on a cold night. And I always say 'thank you' to the washing machine when it finishes. Well, it's only good manners isn't it? Perhaps we're both a bit odd.
When I had my apartment in town it had a huge balcony off the salon, with full height sliding glass doors to get to it. It was the width of the salon and quite deep as well, in fact some people used it as an extra bedroom. It was a part of the building, not sticking out, so the floor of the balcony of the apartment above was its roof, and it had sliding/opening trissim - louvered shutters - to open it or close it. And I kept humungous floor plants in it - also had them in the salon - and every time I had to go past any of them to open/close the trissim or just to water/feed them I would always say "excuse me please" to those I might accidentally brush on my way past. Well, just because they do not answer back does not mean that you should not be polite to them. Does it?
Does telling the washing machine to hurry up count ? It always seems to go slower when I am in a hurry to go out.
Oh yes I forgotten to mention I often yell "where are you hiding" when I have misplaced my keys, glasses & hearing aids (do look in oven & freezer first)
My keys are always in the same place. Ditto my spectacles. And if my hearing aid is where it used to be kept [when I bothered to wear it] then it is still there. [I only have the one as the other ear is useless]. But I never did find the huge green kitchen knife... ...or a white sleeveless v-neck top and the white and black tunic that went over it. Never wore those, either.
