The biggest waste of time in conversation is the simple question, “How are you doing?”<\/p>\n
Everybody says it.\u00a0 Nearly everybody isn’t serious.\u00a0 And, who answers it honestly?<\/p>\n
Some solve this problem by coming up with creative answers that include humor.\u00a0 If you make somebody laugh, you don’t have to tell anybody how you’re doing.\u00a0 And everybody’s better off when we laugh.<\/p>\n
So—<\/p>\n
How are you doing?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was okay, but I got over it.<\/p>\n
How are you doing?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I made it this far.<\/p>\n
How are you doing?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do you want my opinion, or God’s?<\/p>\n
(When all else fails, you answer a question with a question)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The biggest waste of time in conversation is the simple question, “How are you doing?” Everybody says it.\u00a0 Nearly everybody isn’t serious.\u00a0 And, who answers it honestly? Some solve this problem by coming up with creative answers that include humor.\u00a0 If you make somebody laugh, you don’t have to tell anybody how you’re doing.\u00a0 And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}