I ask the secretary: “How was your weekend?”
She replies: “What do you want?”
Ahh, she knows me well.
Thesokorus: “You just need more levels of duplicity is all. You can do it!”
Miriam: “Yup! That is the common reply to your out of character-nice greetings. I get a chill down my back when you greet normal people (aka not female models) in a nice way.”