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A while back, once I realized it's a greeting not a question, I started answering with "so far so good". It's just as banal as "fine thanks" but it's non standard and makes people laugh. To be clear, I didn't intend it to be funny. Idk why people laugh, but I guess it's because it breaks the script in a gentle way. I honestly started saying it as a compromise between "fine thanks" and a genuine answer.
If I'm screwing with people I'll say "badly but I'm getting used to it".
Exactly. So many people just don't understand it. Nobody actually wants to know how your day's going, it's just a fancy "hello". So I reply "hello" and have a little smile to myself while their face shows they're processing the non-sequitur.