Most of the time, it's just "how's it going?" But every now and then, I get a "hey, what's new?" while I'm on one of my frequent visits to the break room at work. I get accosted for an update on my life, even as I am dashing out of the room, head down, eyes averted away from the other people in the room, so as not to elicit any signals that could be misinterpreted as a desire to socialize. If I wasn't always so ravenous and didn't have such a weakness for free food, I'd avoid the break room altogether, just to avoid such verbal assaults...

"Nothing's new. Nothing's ever new! How about you? What's new with you? Do you have a non-nothing answer for your own question?"