> When they want to know how my holiday was, no they don't. If you ever move to europe, you will find that even when people didn't really want to know, they un

> When they want to know how my holiday was, no they don't. If you ever move to europe, you will find that even when people didn't really want to know, they understand that they did, in fact, ask the question. (If you don't have time, the polite thing is to greet* but not inquire) Q. How do you confuse an American? A. When they ask how you are, tell them. * a folk etymology of "howdy!" is that it evolved from the vestigial use of "how do you do?" You could pretend, when your cow-orkers ask how you are, that they really meant to say "howdy, pardner!" (in a VR-mediated world, this could be automated via filter?) fun fact: cowhands and SWEs both sometimes ask each other "how's the stock doing?"