I wonder...
How would the cashier react,
if I answered honestly,
when asked,
"How are you today?"
If, for once, I chose to ignore the compulsion to trade trite for trite,
to maintain normalcy?
I wonder...
What would this world look like?
Without a hackneyed protocol for social interaction?
A world where adherence to a common thread is not encouraged?
Propriety stowed away?
...'I'm good how are you,' I take my Coke, and I wonder.