In a food shop the other day the server said No drink with that? It was kind of like a command to put purchase a drink in addition to what else I purchased. It made me think about what we say at the counter and how a poorly constructed sentence which should up-sell could fail.
There is a bakery I go to sometimes and I will ask for “one donut” or “one whatever”, and automatically I will always get back “you want one or 2”. It drives me mad and I don’t go there often as a result.
Yeah, sometimes people behind the counter get caught up in their script that they forget to be human.