Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not enough food in the fridge.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2023 source ↗
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If mobile phones hadn’t been invented.
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