By Jim Hagarty
2018
I can’t exactly say why, but I like people who say, “Alrighty.” Especially young people. They don’t have to say, “Alrighty, then,” as Jim Carrey did in his Pet Detective comedies. A short “Alrighty” does me just fine.
I can’t think of any explanation for why “Alrighty” gives me a good feeling. It just does. Tonight, in a restaurant, the waitress said the magic word when my wife and I gave her our order. And there is a clerk in a variety store I go to regularly who also always says it when she is tallying up my bill. Both these people are young and I think this is connected to why I like them using what I suppose might be considered part of an old person’s lingo. An old farmer, for example.
“Alrighty, boys! That hay ain’t gonna bale itself. Let’s get going!”
So the kids are changing so much these days. We hear it all the time. Or maybe they aren’t.
And that’s alrighty with this old farmer.
