When you tell your son to say hi to people he encounters.
Son: “Mom, please stop calling me. I am late for class”.
Mom: Sorry. Tell the professor mom says hi and that I’m sorry I made you late.
Mom after class: how did it go?
Son: the professor marked me late, but he says hi back.
Situation 2:
Son: “I gotta go, I’m next in line at the drive thru”
Mom: “okay, sorry to bug you. Tell the drive thru mom says hi”.
Son: I will.
Son to drive thru speaker: I’ll take a #2 with a Dr Pepper, and my mom says hi.
Drive thru host: okay drive thru to the first window and say hello to your mom.
Son callls mom back: drive thru host says hello.
Situation 3:
Son: mom I have to go I’m headed to a game
Mom: tell everyone I say hi.
Son after game: Hi mom, everyone says hi back.
Mom: oh good!