Thinking…
Thinking…
Thinking…
“Tired. How about you?”
Good how about yourself
I almost always forget to reciprocate in person lol
Them: “How are you”
Me: “Good”
Them: “…”
Me: “…”
Being German alone makes you hate that English question.
Do you want to hear it or not?!
Don’t be surprised to get an answer!
This is how I feel. If you ask, I will tell you. If you don’t want to know, why did you ask?
Well you lot are just as bad. What’s with Guten Tag? Good Day? Is it still the 1800s in Germany? We stopped using archaic language centuries ago.
I never considered guten Tag a question. It is more of a wish. Or do you consider good morning a question too?
(and regarding archaic… 200 years are nothing in human development 😁)
A every time. They’ve volunteered to hear my complaints.
I see, I’ve done it all wrong. I always tried C and sometimes A. Next time, I will do B and talk obnoxiously about something I like. Repeat twice and they hopefully never ask me again.
C for me because if I want you to know how my day is going, I’ll let you know.
C because they apparently dont care how my day is and are just asking because that’s a thing people do for some reason.
Ask me a lie of a question, get a lie for an answer.
A while back, once I realized it’s a greeting not a question, I started answering with “so far so good”. It’s just as banal as “fine thanks” but it’s non standard and makes people laugh. To be clear, I didn’t intend it to be funny. Idk why people laugh, but I guess it’s because it breaks the script in a gentle way. I honestly started saying it as a compromise between “fine thanks” and a genuine answer.
If I’m screwing with people I’ll say “badly but I’m getting used to it”.
Exactly. So many people just don’t understand it. Nobody actually wants to know how your day’s going, it’s just a fancy “hello”. So I reply “hello” and have a little smile to myself while their face shows they’re processing the non-sequitur.
“I can’t complain”
The best answer I’ve heard. It is both a “you don’t care about the answer, so I’ll just give you a canned response” answer and a direct commentary about the social ritual.
Always C. The asker isn’t really asking a question. Their whole sentence actually is equivalent to them saying “hi”.
Then just say fuckin „hi“. Wtf do you need this stupid dancing around for? How is it considered normal to ask an
ingeniousingenuine question and answer with a lie? How am I the weird one in this scenario?It’s just a magic constant embedded in the standard conversational header, referencing an obsolete firmware version, but most users never update the client package so you have to ack it or you get undefined behavior.
A part of me dies when I say the lie
Because that’s just how neurotypical brains work.
Trying to figure out a why for it will just drive you crazy, because it’s not something anyone knows for sure.
I think it’s more of a cultural thing, you grow up hearing that exchange and a neurotypical brain will just file it under “short, common greetings”.
People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.
It’s the amount of possible variations after that that make it a huge mess.
People don’t even think about the meaning of the words, they just grab something from the “common greeting replies” drawer without even looking.
This is how you wind up with the ‘Waiter: Enjoy your food! Me: Thanks, you too!’ situation
