I wonder about the commonly used question "How was your day?" When greeting someone. How was your day? Do you really want to know how my day was? Why do you want to know? I'm sorry, I was thinking about something completely different, like the strange nature of bananas or how I'm going to repair my eyeglasses THIS time. I really haven't stopped to think about just how my day was. However, for the sake of conversation, I'll go ahead and do it now. Well, let's see here, hmm, the morning wasn't particularly good, getting up was rough. The shower was nice. Breakfast was tasty and good, but it wasn't really easy to enjoy because I was still bleary from the getting up part. Going to work was boring and lousy... Is that what you want to hear? That's a lot of things to think about, and it takes a long time, and it seems to me that it's completely pointless! Or do you just want me to say 'Fine" and ask you how your day was? Then you'd either have to say "fine" as well or go through the whole entire proccess yourself, and no one in their right mind would want to do that. Anyone who did would clearly be either completely obsessed with themselves or marginally insane. I think that the small talk greetings are only around because we as a society continue to perpetuate their use! They are a pointless and wasteful tumor on the English language and the only way to get rid of them is by discouraging their use whenever possible. So please, fellow English speakers, think of ways to cleverly and sarcastically answer the obtuse and dreadful small talk questions, starting with "How was your day?"

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