Posted by sigismund on February 9, 2011, at 21:48:39
In reply to Smiling all the time?, posted by Annabelle Smith on February 8, 2011, at 14:30:14
>We exchanged the superficial "how are you?" fine
I rarely answer anything other than 'Alright' to that question. Most people then say 'Just alright?', to which you can say with a touch of severity 'Yes, just alright.'
You can say (which I did once) 'Don't ask. Just don't ask.'
And then there was the time I took advantage of a recent death (quite shamelessly, I surprised myself) by answering the checkout girl's question with 'My mother just died'.
And then there is the old favourite
'I feel like slitting my wrists'.And novel approaches like 'Tired of standing up' and 'Unexcited to be engaged in conversation'.
'So far so good' is promising.
poster:sigismund
thread:978909
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20110206/msgs/979025.html