Impulsivity. We end up in strange places, like right now – I am in the Middle East.
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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.
Procrastination.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2023 source ↗
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View all 243 →I talk too much.
I’m slightly impatient.
I am a bit of a procrastinator.
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I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.
I can’t disclose that because it’s not suitable for public airing, but it was truly awful; they’ve since said worse.
I don’t have a sorry.
A warm sunny day. You get this bubble around you and, all of a sudden, problems are halved.
Not fulfilling my potential.
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