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Social nicety bullies.
If I talk to you 3 to 4 times a day on the phone and in person for business, I am not going to ask "How are you?" every time. So, please don't be that jerk and after I've answered, "Fine" for the third time today to your question say: "Aren't you going to ask how I am?" OR "I asked how your weekend was ... you must not want to hear about mine or you would've asked."
— Christina from Milwaukee | Conversation | 6.27.2009 | Comments (4)
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I must say I'm glad I've never encountered someone as annoying as this. Although it may be the same as the girls in grade school who used to say, "Fine, don't say hi!" if you didn't say hello to them quick enough.
— BronxWasp posted 6/27/2009
I really peeve myself out sometimes when I do this - I'll say Hi how are you, it just rolls off the lips as a general greeting, and then that person will say fine, how are you. Then, I'll say good, how are you. Like an idiot. Already asked and answered. Politely and generically. I try to be more conscious not to add more fluff to an already impersonal social custom, but I catch myself doing this about once a week, social retard that I am.
— Kerrin posted 6/27/2009
The only thing more phony and lame is people that pretend to never have met you. Oh please, I'm supposed to be pretending to not know you!
— Personaldecay posted 6/28/2009
A good response if someone has asked you already that day is, "Oh, about the same as I was an hour ago - how can I help?"
— posted 3/12/2010
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