The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I talk too much.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗
I dislike my relationship with food. I wish I didn’t love food so much.
Being judgmental.
I still say yes to too many things.
I’m chronically late. It’s magical thinking: I actually believe I can take a shower and get dressed in three minutes, that the train will be pulling into the station the moment I arrive….
As a man who tried his best to entertain.
Watching the Festival of Remembrance last autumn.
Standing outside a pub in Acton on a freezing February day in a threadbare overcoat doing market research.
If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.
When my mother died in my arms, I feel I witnessed her spirit leaving her body, so let’s just wait and see.
Glass half full.
David Hasselhoff, Sally Field, Scott Mills, Daphne Guinness, Adele Parks, Danielle Steel
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