The question
Who deserves an apology from you, and for what?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Canadians are trained to say sorry to almost everything and everyone.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 June 2025 source ↗
I would like to say sorry to my ex-girlfriend. I was with her for 10 years. I wish I’d treated her with more respect and been kinder at the end.
A teacher at my secondary school. We used to write and sing songs about him. Sorry, Sir! You were a great teacher.
To anyone I’ve worked with between 5.30am and 8.30am. I am not a morning person.
My father because I was 12 when he passed and I blamed him for everything in my parents’ marriage. Now I realise he did the best he could and was just figuring life out like everybody else.
The metabolism I had in my 20s.
Getting into a tense argument with Russell Crowe during one of the Vanity Fair Oscar parties.
My children’s education.
That I didn’t go to Turkey during the pandemic for one of those male hair treatments.
“Didn’t you used to be Graydon Carter?”
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
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