Doing the rounds on the Tube in London at the moment is a Nokia advertisement asking this question.
This reminded me of an interesting article I read recently about the decline in manners.
Have you smiled at anyone today?
Too many people these days grunt and ignore their way through life.
We used to be a nation that would happily talk for lengthy periods to perfect strangers about the weather.
We used to know our butchers, bakers, though probably not any candlestick makers, but we did know the old woman at the post office. When did we slip out of the habit?
However it isn’t too late for us.
We could, with a little effort, be a lot nicer to each other.
So: betwen the hours of 12am and noon say “good morning” or “morning”, noon to 5pm a simple “helllo” will do and 5pm to 12am “evening”.
Good luck.