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[quartz plover]

Please be patient

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[stone tundra]

using the conditional is more polite

[fringe seal]

Is it just an extra step up though? Like if I used prendre with a vendor I didn't know would it be potentially offensive to them?

[stone tundra]

it's just more polite
asking a different way isn't necessarily rude

what would be taken as super rude would be not saying "bonjour" in France
how you actually ask for something is less important