Re: Frivolous Poll - how do you answer "how are you?"

["Chris Christner" <cchris -at- toptechwriter -dot- us>]

Hi Rebecca,

I'm a "fine, thanks, and you?" type of person, but it's an awkward
formality, intended for a bygone, slower-paced lifestyle. I've often seen
the sequence of "Hi, how are you? --  "I'm good" -- "Good" -- "How are
you?" -- "I'm good" -- "Good" take place between harried employees
hustling down a corridor where the last "Good" was tossed off to a
retreating back nearly out of earshot. Only in America. We need to
modernize and streamline, this greeting, I'm for: greeting: raised
eyebrows  -- reply: "gruntled".

In a slightly related vein, from the Top 5 list:
The Top 13 Signs Your Co-worker is About to Go Postal

#5  Whenever you ask how he's doing, he always says, "Gruntled." Except
today.


--Chris

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