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What do you answer when you meet someone in the hallway or on the street and they say 'Hey, whats up?', pauses slightly and then continues walking?

I used to get flustered trying to think of what to answer. Then for a while I would just say 'nothing' because it was the only thing that there was time for (and because I didn't think they really wanted to know what was up). Now I just smile and say 'hey'.

What do you do? What do you think is expected?

no long answer is expected. it's just like a longer form of:....hi.

i say hi back, too

Being an oldster, I'd say "me blood pressure!"

i can get it if someone says in msn like that..i usually tell em "good"...then ..."u?"

I usually do some smart ass reply.

For example:
"The price of crude"
"My blood pressure"
"The sky"

etc. The one I hate is "How are you doing?" ... though, my cure for that one is to tell them, in excruciating detail.

Whatever's not down dog. You can skip the dog.

When the question of "what's up" comes at me, I usually throw it back.

Friend: "Hey man, what's up?"
Me: "Sup"

There's not enough time for me to formulate a more meaningful response. That's fine, because a more meaningful response is not expected.

Someone once asked me "How are you?" I replied, quite literally:

"It was a cold night in September, 1980. My parents..."

The asker instructed me to stop right there. Apparently, the specific details of my existence, (HOW I am) vis a vis my conception, were not what she wanted to know.

Usually, if someone asks me what's up, I look up and say, "Everything." I'm 5'1", so it works for me.

Usually I respond with "not much, you?" The question comes at me so fast I can't come up with a different reply. However, when the rare occasion does arise, and I am able to think of a response, I go with something along the lines of what Fretion suggested.

...I have GOT to work on those run-on sentences.

-Mist