Have a ‘safe’ journey

I hate it in shops when at the conclusion of the sale they say 'have a good/great day'. Lots of people, pensioners in particular, are coping with difficult lives and this is the last thing that is happening to them. It's all part of the new customer care style and I don't like it.

I wonder if “Farewell” would do?

I tend to say 'take care'. The trouble is, my sister having been killed in a road accident and, separately, my daughter severely injured in one. Both the innocent victims of a concatenation of events rather than the victims of dangerous drivers, it is difficult to say anything to some one starting a journey that isn't freighted with significance. I wish I could think of something.

The number of people injured or killed in flying accidents is a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of the whole, much, much lower than for road journeys. Stop moaning about people trying to be kind! It's not their fault if you worry and imagine horrible things. The difference between the words safe and good is not huge. Have a good journey includes the safe bit and have a safe journey includes the good bit.

I don’t really think of car crashes, more that I have a pleasant and uneventful journey with no traffic jams.

Me too, although I like it when others say it to me, it sounds caring.

Oh dear I often wish people 'safe journey'

Oh dear I'm afraid I'm guilty! It has now become something I feel I have to say when the children leave for a long journey, on a par with saying goodbye.

I agree and I also hate it when people say, 'Drive safe!'

What on earth is that supposed to mean?