THAY

Do you ever see someone and have the following exchange:

You – Hey! How are you Brent?

Brent – Pretty good. You?

You - Pretty good. How are you?

Well, that’s awkward, isn’t it? I call this the Triple How Are You, or THAY. I did it yesterday with somebody. So, what do you do in this situation?  Your options include:

1.       Apologize immediately for the THAY. Meh. This gives the other person the upper hand.

2.       Don’t say anything and see if they ask you a second time how you are. That would be a Quad How Are You (QHAY). Unfortunately these rarely happen.

3.       Say something like, “Sorry, I’m still groggy from that royal wedding. Wasn’t Megan’s dress beautiful? The fact that she was American should have caused them to move the start of the wedding to a time more convenient for us Americans.”

I’m going with #3. You can use that wedding line for a few months and then you’ll have to find some other excuse.