How are you today? Bah, humbug.

‘So how are you today?’  These five words really get my goat, usually chirpily intoned after ‘Hello, my name is Dave from Global International Corp’ or some such.  Wouldn’t it be great if these guys dropped the insincerity and went straight for the sale?  How about a National No ‘How Are You Today’ Day?  The rules are simple: as soon as you hear the words, you put the phone down.  Unless you know the person, I suppose.  But even then….