> Maybe it's a regional thing? I think so. I use "sorry" as a casual non-apology sometimes when I don't mean to trouble people for the same reasons as others u

> Maybe it's a regional thing? I think so. I use "sorry" as a casual non-apology sometimes when I don't mean to trouble people for the same reasons as others up-thread. It wasn't until I met my exgf when I realized that some people are perplexed by that. I said it in the context of "hope I'm not troubling you," and her immediate response was "why are you apologizing?" Didn't help that I came back with "...I'm not?" because she insisted I was. That said, my mother is Australian, so at least half of my upbringing is non-American, and I often don't give much thought to certain cultural discrepancies (even though I was born and raised in the US) because I have a hard enough time keeping my own straight. lol