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’m very impatient – next question.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗
Doomscrolling on my phone.
Avoidance coping.
My need to be liked.
I am a massive people-pleaser and it brings me nothing but trouble.
I cry a lot at films; my mother and I were champion criers at Meet Me in St Louis.
We’ve run out of champagne.
Not to be able to do the things that you take for granted, like running up the tube steps or going somewhere under your own steam.
I’m trying to write my will and I keep changing my mind.
Complaining about the weather, because there’s nothing you can do about it. There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.
Impatient, funny, worrier.
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