I’m slightly impatient.
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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 can go for weeks without opening the mail. I can look at a letter that has just dropped through the letterbox, wonder what it is and then just shred it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗
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View all 243 →Conflict aversion.
My ability to stress myself out.
Not following through on things.
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View profile →Audiobooks have allowed me to catch up on the books I always claimed to have read anyway. On long journeys I’ll often be listening to Kafka, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn. It’s a fantastic way to pass time and often means I’ll turn up at the gig really depressed. So it’s a win-win.
An unhackable, simple-to-remember password that works for everything.
Caring, patient, considerate, innumerate.
Probably a train ticket anywhere in the UK.
After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more.
When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.
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