Comment on Is it asshole behavior to hate someone for saying "Hi, how are you?"

over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I don’t see how that should upset anyone. It’s meant to be a polite generic question. Even if you’ve had a bad day, you don’t have to divulge any information, just simply say ‘alright’, and they most likely won’t ask you any more.

Where I’m from, “How are you doing?” really is meant to be a polite way of engaging with a stranger at a cash register or other public customer facing job.

It’s not like they said anything offensive, they’re just trying to engage a little polite conversation. Which you are most certainly not obligated to engage in if you don’t want.

For me, I’ll usually answer with whatever generic crap is going on that day, like “Man it’s cold outside yo, can you turn the heat up out there?”

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