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What do you say when you meet a co-worker in
the office? What's a good simple easy greeting?
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Here's what's funny, it's often a question but
we don't necessarily want an answer. For example,
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"Hey, what's up?" We don't actually mean
tell me everything you got going on,
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the answer to that is "Not much."
Another greeting, "Hey, how's it going?"
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Again, we're not asking you to really tell us how
things are going for you. The answer to that is
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"Good." Or you could say "Hey what's going
on?" Again, we don't need to know what you
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really have going on. It's just a greeting
and to that you could say "Not much."
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Now my dad, when he would go on runs around the
town and he would pass somebody else running,
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he would always say "How are you doing?"
"How you doin'?" short for "How are you doing?"
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How are you doing? That's another good
greeting. Again the answer is just
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"Fine." If it's before noon,
my favorite greeting is
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"Morning!" I use this as I walk around the
neighborhood in the morning and see neighbors.
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