Wrong automatic response

[chezmax]

<Cow orker> Hey, what's up?
<Max> Not bad.

Damnit!

Comments

[jennyrhill.livejournal.com]

I do that all the frickin time. I can't help it, especially if someone uses an inflection that usually goes with another question.

[quatch.livejournal.com]

Most people probably wouldn't even notice your response.

Frequently I respond 'ok' to the 'how are you?' question. They then respond with 'good' or 'fine', as if I had also asked the question back.

[insaint.livejournal.com]

I often say "good" in the sense that "it's good that you're okay".

[bery.livejournal.com]

Mine, which I always do, and which always bugs me, is:

[Them]: How's it going?
[Me]: Good, you?

It's not as bad as your example, but my own response gets on my nerves. :)

[whirling-woman.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the time when I worked at Coffee Time I would switch between the automatic phrases at the end of a transaction:
Thank you, enjoy!
or
Thanks have a nice day.

Sometimes customers wouldn't be listneing (ok generally they wouldn't be listening) and when I said 'thanks enjoy', they would reply "thanks you too".
Sometimes I would decide to cath them at it and say 'really I can enjoy soem of your tea too?'
The technical linguistical word your lookign for is a phatic phrase, when the fact that you said the phrase is more meaningful then the meaning of the actual phrase.

[darkmagess.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

But it's a cute brain malfunction.