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What is your favourite response to "How are you?"-type questions?
What response(s) would you wink out of existence if you could?
Date: 2009-03-10 03:33 am (UTC)

From: [identity profile] muilteag.livejournal.com
I totally agree with you about it all. I think, Hello is the ONLY appropriate GREETING.
As a customer I usually hear "Hi, how're you DOING?" Assuming the greeting is being enforced I make it short and easy for everybody - "Good!:-)" and go straight to business. I think it unnecessary and inadequate to the situation to reciprocate with an "... and yourself?" here.
Nobody really wants to hear anything but GOOD!
I suspect, nobody really wants to be asked back, either.

"How are you?", as far as I know, actually IS reserved for "medical purposes", and should not be used as a greeting. So, even if the cashiers are just trying to save the effort by cutting out the DOING word - they are wrong :-D

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