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40 Appropriate Responses to “How are you?” in May, 2020
2 min readMay 12, 2020
- Hanging in there.
- Could be worse. Could be much worse.
- People say ‘can’t complain, but let’s change it to ‘shouldn’t complain.’
- About the same.
- Lucky.
- Lucky, but it’s tough.
- Lucky, but slowly losing my sanity.
- Lucky?!*#@!
- Really fucking lucky?
- We have two eggs left before our planned bi-weekly grocery run.
- We have enough food to get us to Friday.
- Our fridge died, but we’re lucky, we can afford a new fridge and a mini-fridge until then.
- Our fridge died, but we’re lucky, we can afford a mini-fridge.
- Our fridge died, but we’re lucky, we hadn’t gotten groceries for a while, so we didn’t lose too much.
- Our fridge died and we’ll be living on cans and crackers for a while.
- Toilet paper is stocked, so we’re all set.
- We have toilet paper again. It’s single ply. I keep getting shit on my fingers.
- We don’t have any toilet paper, so we’re using tissues.
- We don’t have any toilet paper or tissues, so we’re using notebook paper.
