How are you?

Do people not realize that when I ask "how are you?", it is usually a rhetorical question?  It is not a chance for you to let me know how great everything in your life is, how you met a new girl, how you got a raise, how you bought a great new home, how life is just wonderful.  It usual just means, "hey, I am going to be nice and ask how you are so you can quickly say good and you?"