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 can be a people-pleaser, to the detriment of my own needs sometimes.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 December 2023 source ↗
Impatience. The inability to ever finish a knitting project.
My interest in Los Angeles.
My complete lack of organisation that affects all part of my life – my living space, my being in touch with people, everything. I am a walking shitshow.
Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
Selfless and open, freeing.
I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
Having regrets.
Probably all of them because I am not big into English literature. I read a lot of self-improvement books.
I would tell myself to stop being such a worrier.
Sensitive, kind, silly.
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