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.
Impatience and being bossy.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
Not following through on things.
I’m incredibly patient with a lot of stuff, but incredibly impatient with other things. I deplore the impatient side.
When I “poll the audience” and my need to please others.
Biting my nails.
A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
Dependency. Fascism.
I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
Give, give, give. The more you give, the happier you are.
To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.
Katie Melua, Roger McGough, Keir Starmer, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Martin Scorsese, Keith McNally
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