The question
What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Getting arrested in New York and discovering how lacking in morality US law enforcers are. Being handcuffed to a metal trolley in Bellevue Hospital because I cut my foot while being dragged from a police car, and listening to nurses chatting about hair products as I screamed for something to stop me hallucinating.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 February 2008 source ↗
When Justin Bieber's management kicked us out of his rehearsal because they were afraid we'd laugh at him. I was actually super-excited.
That most men have not yet come to understand the impact and the devastating consequences of violence against women.
The years I lost trying to fix my second marriage.
For my dad not to have known our boys.
I am relieved to say that I find it hard to answer such a question, because if I could it would suggest that my life has become dreary and empty.
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