DEAR MISS MANNERS: How in the world did the current conversational "filler word" become "perfect!"? And how do we discourage this annoying "grading" of everything?
Nowadays, it seems, one cannot have any conversation regarding a transaction without one's response being graded as "perfect!" by the questioner. It often even becomes catlike with a "purrrfect" judgment of me or my response to their question.
GENTLE READER: The wording of conventional responses seldom bears up under close scrutiny, as Miss Manners would have told a hypothetical gentleman of a past generation who objected that the clerk was wrong to call his purchase "Very good, sir."