Thursday 20 April 2006

Don't ask, don't tell

From now on, anybody who asks me "How are you?" better wait to hear the answer or at least be walking in the same direction as me. I never managed to get the hang of responding to "How are you?" as if it just meant "Hello", so I usually try to give a reasonable answer, then inquire about the greeter's state of wellbeing. By the time I get through my initial part of the response, though, we've continued moving and it's clear that the conversation starter was just a sophisticated grunt of acknowledgement.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Is the phrase "sophisticated grunt" an oxymoron?
PPS - I suspect so.

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