How are you?
K- I've just got to say it. Yeah it's ticking me off bad enough that I am writing a blog Saturday night at 10:45. When someone poses the question "How are you?", it's OK to say "fine" or "good" or "dandy" "root-tootin-fan-freakin-tastic".
I am sick of the people who think that "well" is the proper way to respond to the question. "How are you? "Well." WELL WHAT???
They always ask you how you are doing first. Wait for your improper response. Then when you ask them how they are doing they say "well", and give you that look. The look that an NBA player would give a fat midget. The look that a world class poodle would give to a flea infested mutt. THAT look. The look of, "Don't you wish you knew the English language as WELL as I do?"
No.
I don't care.
It's perfectly acceptable to say, "pretty good" or "great!" or "super!". If there is only one proper answer to the question why do we even ask it? Don't even get me started because I have written a lengthy paper on why we shouldn't ask, "how are you" since no one really cares how you are. Yeah don't get me started on that. Don't... get me started...
Tired. Angry. Bed.
Well.
7 Comments:
what if I were to answer "I'm doing well?" Is that OK? Could you live with that? Because it is answering the question. That is, if you are asking.
basically I'm cool with anything other than plain old "well".
Yeah. I hate how people always ask "how are you", but they never really want to know. It's like "how are you" is part of saying hello to someone. I've noticed that some people, after I answer a simple "good", will ask "How are you really?" This is cool, since it lets me know if people give a darn or not.
I've often thought about answering how I REALLY am feeling at that moment. "I'm ok- but I've had diarrhea for a few days." I mean do you really WANT to know? Then why ask?
Have you really had diarrhea? It's been going around!
Sorry about the diarrhea. Hope everything else is going WELL.
Another reason why I hate people. Thanks for putting it into words Blgodor.
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