No but you’re on the money! Its so hard to quit cold turkey but I’ve just realised I started at work! When I first heard about this whole sorry/thank you thing, while I immediately saw the value, I felt too far gone to really enact it. So I started saying it at work. Work – a place where I am employed with the universal understanding that I work here, I am in charge here (of people that don’t work here) and all that come into my place of work know this and treat me as such. Its so much easier to start with strangers that have already given you space.

when i was a kid (60’s) we’d reply to “sorry” with; “i wasn’t asking for a personal reference”, or “i know that’s what you mama says about you”! get’s them off the “sorry” train quick.

i’ll try and help you out on the furniture bump, just say: “DAMM”

or as my Aunt Kappi told me back in 1956; “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.”