Reminds me of my favorite response to a popular stopsign.
Alice: Mark, please tell Bob I’m not speaking to him.
Mark: Um...
Bob: I heard her.
Bob: I just don’t understand women, Mark.
Mark: (twitch) Actually, that which you don’t understand is Alice. But if you spent as much energy actually trying to understand Alice as you do blaming her gender for your lack of understanding, you’d understand her just fine and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
I’ve gotten in the habit of saying “I can’t complain” when someone asks me how I am, since “I’m fine” is rarely the truth. I like that response because it’s kind of meta the way I use it: in my head it’s short for “I can’t complain to you because you don’t actually want to know and being made to listen to my complaints would alienate you.”