Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied "Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine .
Kvetha, Shur'tugal Greetings, Dragon Rider
Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.
Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?
Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.