if someone asks how you are, do you ever respond truthfully?

☎ Rotary Dial ☎2007-09-04T05:11:29Z

Favorite Answer

Does anyone really want to know if you're having a herpes outbreak, or if your kids got head lice?
No. They'd rather know that you're "just fine".

machnik2016-10-20T01:59:43Z

basically interior the Politics section! maximum of YA works extraordinarily sensibly, and trolling is minimum. although in Politics, many questions are alongside the strains of "Why is flesh presser X crammed with s**t", i.e. no longer a real question, basically rhetoric. It in many cases reflects a harsh and closed-minded techniques-set of people who're no longer actually interested in Q & A. US politics is the main important venue for those human beings. They use YA as a talk and dirt-throwing talk board, no longer for real Q & A. in case you ask a real and sensible question, you deserve a real answer (it fairly is what it is meant to be). it is going to no longer rely who the answerer is or what's their political persuasion - if reasoning and clarification is definitely finished, a stable answer is a sturdy answer whether you disagree with it. although, in case you ask a trolling question, do no longer anticipate an answer of any better high quality than the question! P.S. i've got no longer revealed if i'm Democrat, Republican, or maybe which continent i'm from....

Anonymous2007-09-03T19:06:56Z

8 out of 10 times.

Anonymous2007-09-03T17:26:21Z

Many years ago when I was first starting out in sales, I did. If someone (usually a prospective client) asked how I was and I'd just learned that my car needed $545 worth of work and I felt like I was coming down with the flu and my boyfriend had just left me ... and my life just SUCKED ... I'd tell them so. I figured I was being honest. But hey, who wants to hear it really? It didn't bring me any new customers - and rehashing what was WRONG didn't leave me the opportunity to focus on what was RIGHT. I changed my ways pretty quickly.

Lady M2007-09-03T17:28:52Z

That depends on the person. Most people are just being polite and freindly, not with intentions of knowing how you truly feel. If it is a friend who I know really wants to know how I am personally, I will tell them. But most often its "Fine, and you?" With them just answering fine back. It's kinda like... familiar stranger protical. You know, people you see all the time somewhere, but don't know do-do about them personally. Like co-workers from another dept, or the waitress at the restaurant you always go to. You know who they are, and you want to acknowledge them, and not be rude.

Show more answers (85)