heyhowareyou
it must be said.
The most annoying passerby greeting that you can ever come across.
"Hey-how-are-you."
I'm not even going to put a question mark behind that because it's not even adressed as a question, it's not even said as a sentence. It's all one long word of a greeting.
No pauses in their steps, all you get is a quick smile and heyhowareyou, you manage to put across a 'hey' and if you're lucky, a quick smile back again, unless they already are five metres past you.
What's the point in even saying it if you're not going to stop and wait for an answer. At least do one of those two..
My suggestion? Take the word out of the English vernacular altogether. "Hi" should suffice if you're not asking a question anyway.
The most annoying passerby greeting that you can ever come across.
"Hey-how-are-you."
I'm not even going to put a question mark behind that because it's not even adressed as a question, it's not even said as a sentence. It's all one long word of a greeting.
No pauses in their steps, all you get is a quick smile and heyhowareyou, you manage to put across a 'hey' and if you're lucky, a quick smile back again, unless they already are five metres past you.
What's the point in even saying it if you're not going to stop and wait for an answer. At least do one of those two..
My suggestion? Take the word out of the English vernacular altogether. "Hi" should suffice if you're not asking a question anyway.
Labels: annoyances, heyhowareyou, rant
16/01/2009, 11:41
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16/01/2009, 11:42
yes i just removed my post apparently. i repeat. do people actually do that?- me top
16/01/2009, 11:43
the first comment was written from my google account :) top
16/01/2009, 21:43
haha, you should keep writing from your goggle account.
But, you seriously have never met that? People saying, heyhowareyou but keep walking as if they just said hi. You barely get the time to reply to their "question" and they're gone. Of course, you can say, I'm fine thanks, and expect an answer back, but that will force them to stop in their tracks to say "fine, thanks" or something, something they never intended in the first place.
But of course, the other side of that could also be, I'm the one walking away from a proper question. xD I like to think that is not the case. top