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.
Well, I’m always right.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 May 2025 source ↗
My inability to say no.
I bore myself constantly.
Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.
Maxi-multitasking.
None. I love reading, and I read a good book and a bad book at the same time.
Haven’t done it yet.
Loved you in Dallas.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
I was 15 working in Boots on Barnet High Street and it was terrifying. At coffee break you had to know whose cup was whose, and taking the wrong cup was a crime. I’ve met bitches, but I tell you they started out in Boots in Barnet.
People who think they’re always right.
Judd Apatow, Bill Clinton, Richard Schiff, Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Caroline Lucas
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