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.
Standing up while eating.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Appearing angry when I’m not angry.
Impatience. I’m not very good at waiting around or dealing with things that aren’t moving at a pace that I want them to.
I’m very impatient – next question.
The inclination to pretend I read a friend’s book when maybe I didn’t completely finish.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
They take my calls.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
That I’ll die worrying.
Robert Glenister, Melissa Etheridge, Ally McCoist, Zadie Smith, Harrison Ford, Kevin Bacon
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