Thank you.

You will say it maybe a dozen times today and mean it perhaps twice. To the barista, to someone holding a door, into a phone while thinking about something else entirely.

That is not hypocrisy. The automatic version is the grease that keeps strangers civil and it is worth having. But it is a different substance from the version where you stop, look at someone, and say it about something specific they did.

The second kind takes about five seconds longer. Most people receive it a handful of times a year. You could be one of those times for somebody this week.