The question
What trait do you most dislike in other people?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Casual cruelty; the wearing of essential oils.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
I always try to see the good. I never look for the bad.
False humility.
A lack of generosity. It can take so many forms—it doesn’t just have to do with money—so I’m always shocked when people can’t muster any at all.
Selfishness and no respect for the others.
My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
To lose the ability to do my work.
Unmade bed surrounded by books, writing utensils, and the dog; a plate of demolished toast with butter on my chest; loved ones puttering not too close but not too far.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
Bob Mackie, Jason Donovan, Natalie Imbruglia, Hugh Skinner, Colson Whitehead, Bruno Tonioli
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