I'll get the salmon

[wand3rer]

Any tiny little habits that make you feel a bit more “put together”?

For example, in a restaurant I’ll just say “I’ll get the salmon” instead of reading out the whole dish name exactly as it’s written on the menu (“salmon with roasted potatoes and vegetables”).

It’s such a ridiculously small thing but it makes me feel smoother 😎😂

What else?

Well in the case of takeaways, unless you’re having them delivered, you are getting them.

I would like the salmon please

I thought maybe this was a thread about people contributing various things to a dinner/buffet, as in 'I'll get the salmon'. That's the only instance where 'get' would be correct.

No, it's polite.

My ex would say ‘I’ll get …’ or ‘Can I get…’ so there are people in the UK who would ask like that. The trouble is that they are mostly dickheads, so you don’t want to be thought of in a similar vein.

To answer your question, I feel put together when my fingernails and toenails are painted the same colour, my bag looks vaguely connected to my outfit and my hair is freshly cut and coloured.

Really? This is AMAZING! I suspect I might sometimes have done this when younger, thinking it witty or delightful to tell the server I'd like the gently poached fillet of Scottish salmon on a bed of butter-glazed shallots. Sometimes a chef's poetry calls for recital - but I must've realised soon enough that the staff would disagree.

'I'll get.../ Can I get.....?' Are you going shopping for it? Picking it up from a cupboard? 'I would like...., I'll have...', are polite, more accurate, English and not pseudo American. Irritates the out of me.

Eh?!

Ignore the pedantic pile on OP the heat must be getting to certain people . Get has been pretty standard here for decades and noone would bat an eyelid.
Anyway things that make me feel put together are

1. little bags within my bag so its less like a cavern of chaos and at least medication, make up, pens, purse.
2. lipstick and mascara and brows filled in before leaving the house
3. shoulder pads that attach to my bras that make my clothes hang better

Exactly! Jeeze 🙄

OP now has 132 replies and I think at least 125 of those are correcting her phrasing

I feel really sorry for her as very few PP's have answered her original question

She must be deeply regretting the wording of her OP

I mean that’s quite common on Mumsnet!!

Please MAY I have!

No fucking way. I'm not a child asking an authoritarian parent.

Yep

On ordering ‘may’ doesn’t sound right to me but get doesn’t either.

I’ll have the .. pls or just the mussels please

Yes but you don't go in and order, by saying "can I get".

You seem to feel very strongly about the word ‘May’ - I’ve never seen it as some how pleading or submissive. It’s just the politer version of can

I suppose I do feel strongly about 🙂I'm not a school kid asking permission to eat Salmon.

“I’ll have the salmon please” or “I’d like the salmon please” - “get” is incorrect.

Surely everyone does this anyway, I’ve never seen anyone read out the whole description written on the menu 🤷🏼‍♀️.

I’ve never thought of it as asking for permission any more than ‘can I?’

i actually say “I’ll take the salmon please”. No idea if that’s weird.
I love when I remember my bag for life at the supermarket

Definitely not!!!😱

I have worked in a restaurant. Served all kinds of people including celebs. As long as you are polite no one cares.

It’s been a while since I was wait staff, but people do order like that. They may not say “I’ll have the gently poached salmon in a white wine sauce with garden fresh minted peas and tender new potatoes and zingy tomato salad” but yes, lots of people will say most of the description when it isn’t necessary.

Anyway, OP, have you donned your hair shirt yet?

I think it's more that 'can I ..?', if one is being pedantic (which is absolutely fabulous if that's what floats your metaphors) means 'is it possible that I ..?'

'Can I leave the room?' means 'Is it possible for me to leave the room?'

'May I leave the room?' is asking for permission to leave the room.

'I would like to leave the room' is expressing a wish.

Etc.