It's not a war, no.

If I ask you, “How are you?” and you respond with this long explanation as to how you’ve been, who you’ve been with, where you’ve been, and all that lovely stuff, I expect the next thing you say to be, “and how are you?”. If this isn’t the next thing you say, we’ve got some issues to work out. I don’t even mind if you don’t really care. I’ll even do you a favor and lie. I’ll make it short. Sweet. Simple. Straight to the point -- I’ll keep it under three words. Just ask, for crying out loud!