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There we go, man.

There we go.

How are you today, man?

Doing good.

I always love at work when people awkwardly ask you how you're doing.

I don't know, Mark.

I'm doing great.

What do you want to know, man?

Just such an open-ended question, and it's obviously pointless. They really don't care how you're doing. Exactly. They really just have something. They need something to say when you're in the hallway, and they see you walking down the hallway. They have to come up with something. Um, um, um, um, how are you doing? Good, good. That's it. They don't care.

They don't want to stop and talk.

They're going to where they're going.

You're going to where you're going.

It's just something so there's not awkward silence in the hallway.

And it's become such a common saying now.

I feel 30 years ago, did people ask each other that all the time?

Now it's, how are you doing? Do they genuinely want to know how you're doing?

No, and I want to know how it started.

It's sort of like you go to the cash register at the grocery store.

How's it going today?

Fine.

Cool.

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