Are you listening?

I am deviating from my roots of commenting on news stories, but that's ok. I wanted to comment on my friends' Michaela's blog, she mentions people telling little lies all the time violating the Commandments. Well, in Sunday school one day, my teacher, Greg, told us it takes two to lie, one to pretend to care how you are feeling, the other to say everything in life is just fine. Well, this happens every day, all day. "How are you doing" or "How's it going" has become the new hello. Anyone remember the "WAZZZAPPP". I know I haven't. I am not immune to any of this, by the way. There is one guy at my work, however is the worst at this. He will say "How's it going" and not really care what the response is, but will follow it with "Goood." It is the funniest thing ever. At first, I would just say fine, or well, or even great. He would always respond with "Goood." One day, I wasn't fast enough and didn't say anything, but still got the standard issue response. That is when I started to think that he didn't really care how I was, but he just wanted to say more then a simple hello. So, being the ornery little man that I am, my responses started to vary. I would say things like "crappy", but perhaps he mistaken it for 'happy' and continued to give the trademark response. One day, I replied, “mad”. I wasn’t really mad, I just wanted to see if the response changed. Perhaps, he interpreted it as ‘glad’ while saying “Goood.” I was getting fed up with this possible misinterpreting and decided to give my most radical response. “Hey Jeff, How’s it going?” In the name of science only, I say, “I’m really upset and want to kill myself.” I know, I know, that was totally the wrong thing to say, I AM NOT SUICIDLE, but I really really really wanted to know the answer to that one. Should I hold you all out in suspense……. You already know what he said. “GOOOD!” Some people are sincere and really do want to know your feelings, this guy, however, just wants to say hello.