There's a WG I go to fairly regularly, so she knows me pretty well, and I always ask her "Busy day?" and sometimes she says "No, pretty quiet" and other times "Yes, run off my feet earlier" so it varies for WGs, probably depending on days of the week, school holidays etc. It never bothers me what her answer is but I did notice that if she said she'd been busy I was subconsciously being a bit gentler with her, because, as I said, I'm a reg and I quite like her as a person. I've noticed a few WGs in the North East seem to take Mondays or Tuesdays off, phones switched off, so it could be these days are so sparse of punters its not worth them working.