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“Hi,how are you?” has become one long word without practical meaning.I must be asked,at least 10 times a day how I am.This drives me absolutely crazy.
I hadn’t realized how much the pointlessness of this muchrepeated phrase annoyed me until last summer,when I came upon a lady on the street who was walking with her head down.As we approached each other,she suddenly looked up and asked,“Hi,how are you?” I was pleasantly surprised by this sudden enquiry.But before my brain could think of an answer,she had walked right on by.
One day I staggered in the front door of a clothing store with three heavy shopping bags and a wet umbrella,which I was attempting to hold high so as not to touch a fellow shopper.“Hi,how are you?” she enthusiastically asked,unaware of the fact that I was in need of a hand.Since then,I’ve seen old people in doctors’ offices almost unable to make it up to the receptionist area,having this pain and that pain,only to be received with a calm “Hi,how are you?” by a receptionist whose head is buried in her appointment book.
Sometimes I try a surprise response like,“Well,I was OK,until I got on the train and spilled my coffee,but thankfully the man sitting next to me offered me his napkin.” By the time I finish I’m usually having a conversation with myself.I’ve also tried another way.Once a receptionist smiled and opened her mouth,but before the four words could come out,I enthusiastically said,“Hi!” This is what I felt like saying to her;no more and no less.Yet her response,quick as a wink,was,“Fine,thank you.How are you?”
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