Hey, how you doin??

This is a question that comes under much fire because of it's impersonal nature. The answer usually ends up being something along the lines of 'fine, you?' --- 'fine'. This is of course extremely frustrating for those people whom are lacking in true personal connection because 'fine' does not give any sort of a connection. This week this is how I've been answering the question 'how you doin?'

"Well, last monday I was riding my motorcycle and it began to make funny noises. All the way until wednesday when the lack of power and noises made it so I couldnt' ride it anymore, but that was o.k. b/c I've got a van. Good thing to because on the Wednesday I found out that my grandfather had passed away and I had to be home for the weekend an hour away. So the rest of the week was o.k. although stressed b/c I had a Philosophy midterm coming up and at that point I did not Philo - Sophia (love knowledge) so it was frustrating. But i got that written and it seemed to go o.k. Resolving to myself that i wans't going to do anymore work that weekend I proceeded to invite my roomate to come with me for a salad at Wendy's at around 11:30 that night. Well we got about a block and a half down the road before the van started to make this strange noise, lose all power, and long story short not start up again. So we walked home in the rain and cold and I drank a beer and went to bed. The weekend worked out, good family that came and picked me up so that i could get to the funeral which was nice and then home again on Sunday via a very wonderful girlfriend. Through all of this I was feeling o.k. because I knew that I had my ol' failsafe the pedal bike. Well Tuesday I was riding to school and the gear on my bike decides to bend nearly in half and do to the upset in my rhythm put me into traffic. Thank the Lord it was near a red light or the silver camaro I got a very close look at probably would have been even a little closer. So now i'm left walking to school, unless I can gerry-rig something with the pedal bike..." --- "you?"

dREW~