If you could ban one overused small-talk question forever, which would it be?

A natural way to answer

I'd ban 'How are you?' when nobody actually wants the real answer. It's become so automatic that it's lost all meaning. I'd rather people asked something they genuinely cared about.

Key phrases to use

• sick of — tired of and annoyed by something because it has happened too often“I'm sick of the same old questions.”
• into — interested in or enthusiastic about something“What are you into these days?”
• lost all meaning — become so routine or overused that it no longer means anything“The word 'amazing' has lost all meaning.”