https://michaelmorrison.com/tags/character/Recent content in Character on Michael MorrisonHugoen-usThu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700https://michaelmorrison.com/essays/the-please-is-for-me/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0700https://michaelmorrison.com/essays/the-please-is-for-me/<p>Growing up in Tennessee, saying yes ma&rsquo;am and no ma&rsquo;am was a big deal. So it probably shouldn&rsquo;t have surprised me that I&rsquo;d say please and thank you to a machine. I didn&rsquo;t ever decide to do it. It comes out on its own, the same reflex that would fire if a person had done me the favor. And these days machines are doing me a lot of favors.</p>