How are you?

[jehoshabeath]

"How are you?" someone asks.

Picture a math problem. It asks for a summation of many numbers. At the bottom is a blank cell for the answer and scattered across the paper are various numbers. Some numbers are very faint and small, others flash in and out, others are very large, and still others have not yet appeared. The student can't possibly

Comments

[olifhar]

Explaining's such a pain sometimes. I used to get stuck with a variation of this, "How have you been doing?" and "What have you been up to?" Sometimes a response to the literal question doesn't provide an appropriate answer, so I have to pretend to answer a different, maybe more enjoyable question.