Monday, April 21, 2008

How Are You?

You don't care how I am.
I don't care how you are.

Please do me the courtesy of not answering my enquiry as to your state before I have even asked, in expectation of the now ubiqitous greeting. It makes you look like the superficial idiot that you are.

Please do not sound flustered or offended when I answer your question with 'OK, but I didn't sleep too well last night and my back is giving me a little trouble, oh and I have two overdue bills as well.' You asked - I answered. Live with it.

Please do not stop in your verbal railroad tracks when I say 'Canny' rather than 'Fine, how are you?' like the rest of the braindead sheep in the telephone world.

Thank you!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Difficult morning?

Andrew

redben said...

I'm super, thanks for asking.

Anonymous said...

Judging by the amount of blog posts today I'm guessing it's a slow day in the office? :-)

D.

Vodkashok said...

Sort of slow...

It hasn't been a difficult morning - I'm just sick of people walking past me in the corridor and saying this sentence.

Neil says: "Hi Person X"
They say: "Hi Neil, I'm fine, how are you?"

I NEVER ASKED HOW YOU ARE!!! Gah! It drives me insane. Its a level of unconscious dismissal that really grinds my gears.

Neil

redben said...

Having just returned from a full-body hot stone therapy massage followed by an Indian head massage I am now super-duper. Again, thanks for asking.

redben said...

And may I just add how incredibly cool it is that you have someone working there called Person X. They sound like some kind of secret agent.