I'm good thanks, and you? I'm WELL!

[Jester]

I apologize in advance for such time as I find myself in your neck of the woods and I do the same thing. For whatever reason, that particular bit of grammatical misstep is on auto-correct in my head and I haven't found the control to turn it off before it hits my mouth.

It's okay. I've been getting it from my mom my entire life. And she hasn't found the off button for it, and she'll be 76 next month. (Shhhh...don't tell her I told you.) Then again, I get the feeling she doesn't want to find the off button, she just wishes her children would speak correctly. Amusingly, in the family, she's the only one who didn't attend more than a semester of college. Go figger.

[Eisa]

If people ask me how I am, I usually go "Ok..." and stare at them.

If I said "good" and they said "well," I'd be like "that's nice. I'm sick."

[ParkingWitch]

OH I've got all kinds of smart ass replies to that one.

"Upright and taking nourishment"
"Fair to partly cloudy"
"About half cooked"
"I'm here...and nobody's dead yet"

[BeenThereDoneThat]

"I'm out of bed and dressed, what more do you want?"

[Mr Hero]

I have an interesting story with the two uses of the word "fine". When I was about 5, a couple of teenagers were at the park discussing which girls they thought were fine. I only knew "fine" to be defined as a state of well-being. I chimed in that my mom is fine. They had a good laugh at my expense.

[vikingchyk]

I had a classmate who responded to "How're you doing?" with "Fair to middling." It's another somewhat archaic phrase.

Yay, I'm archaic! I also like to reply with either hoopy, groovy, or claim things are going swimmingly. I've also been known to use wizard.

[Crossbow]

"Still above ground" is my favorite for messing with people's minds. Most of the time it's "alive," "I'm here," or "surviving."

[Andara Bledin]

I've been known to respond that I'm, "Keeping on, keepin' on."

^-.-^

[Sunshine]

i told everyone today that i was having a monday...that was fun.

[Ironclad Alibi]

i told everyone today that i was having a monday...that was fun.

Would that be "a case of the Mondays"?

(Yes, I watched Office Space again the other night.)

[Willis]

I've noticed the ones that say well and like to correct people are always doing it to the ones who say good. This conversation has come up quite a few times for me. I've never heard a person who answers with good correcting a person who says well. Not all the people who say well correct people. I say I'm doing good. I have a few responses for them if they try to correct me.

When I'm just having a carefree day and someone asks me how I'm doing I might say chillin' or cool. Don't want to be bothered sometimes with the being corrected when both good and well are grammatically correct.