Sometimes when I'm walking by someone they'll say "how are you" instead of hi, hello, hey, etc. Sometimes I'm not sure if they really are asking how I'm doing or if it has entered etiquette as a greeting. I've answered hi as well as saying "Good" or "Great, and you?" and sometimes I get an...
I think it's rude for a complete stranger to come up and say "how are you?" as a greeting. It's not so bad if they say hello first, but I know that as a complete stranger they neither want to know, nor care about how I (or whoever they ask) am. If they say it outside of the greeting, it's at...