September 10: it trundleth on

One of the tasks required of all of us is to have at the ready an adequate and witty answer to the question you know will be asked of you any number of times in the day, How are you? For quite some years now my stock response to How are you? has been I’m as good as I get. As from yesterday I am reforming that response. From now on my response to that query will be It trundleth on. The it could be life or a third person presentation of myself. Trundle is an ok way to depict the slightly broken nature of my physical and mental state and the olde worlde ending to the verb gives it a cheery tongue-in-cheek narrative quality. What do you think? I’ll be trying it out over the next few days. It needs to be good because I’ll be using it every day for the next few years. I find repetition helps.

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