How are you?
When it might be better to not take the question too seriously, here are some not so serious answers.
- (Looking at the backs of my hands.) "Well, I've been picking up a tan from the light in the fridge. Every time I open the door for a beer it comes on."
- "You'd have to pull up a chair for a question like that." (The goal with this one is to get the person to run away yelling "No! I don't want to know. I was just kidding when I asked. Please don't tell me how you are.")
- "Where should I start? Well, I was born at a very early age..."
I had a couple of good answers to this one. A drunk thought about it for a few seconds then lit up. "So was I!"
A woman I was working with who was wide awake and right on top of everything we were doing, took about a millisecond to say: "Zero." - After installing ducts in crawlspaces for a while: "Standing up and sunlight seem unnatural to me now."
- "You mean you can write me a prescription?"
- You don't want to give your doctor an easy one like that. If that's how he gets down to business when you visit his office try "You don't get a lot of really positive responses to that, do you?"
- "I found two Safeway carts with the quarters still in them this morning. Hope you're having a nice day."
(For anyone not familiar with this system, you have to insert 25 cents into the cart handle to use it. You get it back when you return the cart. If someone doesn't return it, the quarter is available to anyone who does.) - While working as one of the lowest paid civilians in a police station: "Worried. I always thought I'd get to be chief one day, but the way things are going today, it's going to take longer than I expected."
- Another one that had a bit extra at the station: "Still alive, but you probably picked up on that already."
- "I was fine until I started dreaming I was a muffler last night, but ever since I woke up I've been exhausted."
An added note about this page.
When I set it up, the first sentence after the title was: "The best thing I've ever heard about this question is that it is a good one to ask yourself." I had a couple of strong indications people didn't like that. The average time spent on this page for a month was 3 seconds.
With a bit of effort in the right direction that question can get to be appreciated. To me it is a nice reminder of something obviously important.
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