Greetings

Picture this, you are walking and you see someone you know. You say hi, they say hi, you both go on your merry way.

Unfortunately, it does not always go that smoothly. Sometimes you are about to say hi, but then the other person busts out with a "how are you"? Now what do you do? You already have that hi loaded up so you have to retract that, then you have to say how you are. The problem is that we are both busy people and we are both going some where. Do you just tell him how you are and walk on by, do you stop in your tracks and ask, or do you keep going and yell the same question back.

I never thought greetings would turn into some sort of prisoner's dilemma.