When asked the question, How are you today?, how do you answer it? I suppose your response would vary depending on whether you were considering your metal, physical, spiritual or emotional state. Let’s face it, when asked the question, in most cases the person really doesn’t want you to answer it. It is simply a form of salutation.
For the last number of months I have been answering the question this way:
“Hi G, how are you today?”
“Thank you. How are you?”
Note, I didn’t answer the question, but rarely does the person even notice.
I was in the school office one day when a parent entered. She asked the secretary, “How are you today?”. The response was, “Just ticketyboo.”
This got me thinking, where on the scale of 1 to 10 does ticketyboo fall? According to Oxford Dictionaries, ticketyboo means in good order; fine. I suppose it is not as high on the scale as Just Awesome or Excellent, but it must be higher than Okay or Not too bad.
Personally, I am not sure where I am on the scale but, of late, I feel more boo than tickety. I suppose I can blame that on my Man-Cold.
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Gary Caines is a retired teacher. During his 32 year career he taught in Newfoundland and New Brunswick and in private and public schools. He has been a principal, vice-principal, district supervisor and, something of which he is quite proud, has taught at least 1 course at every grade level – yes, that includes kindergarten.
Over the years he has served as Aide-de-Camp for three Lieutenant Governors and retired as a navigator from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. He directed and produced school musicals and coached rugby at four different high schools (he was still playing the game at 56). He is a recording artist, a past-master of the Masonic Lodge and, for ten years, served as a volunteer ambulance driver. He has climbed mountains in BC and been bitten by mosquitoes in Labrador. Gary has sailed from Halifax to Thunder Bay and return.
He once taught a class in Appenzell, Switzerland and twice performed with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Oh, and something else of which he is proud, he has two beautiful children. In the spring of 2015 he became a grand-father and did so again in the summer of 2017.
He has a lot of stories to tell.
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Read your blog in Hungary this am and commenting from Austria. Wondering if our French ” tiguidou ” is inspired by your ticketydoo… I never saw the expression written in English before, so I always thought it was the French expression used in an English twist when I heard it. Smile !
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