My brother: I never meant to kill your pet frog. I thought I was doing a good deed cleaning the mossy tank with bleach. Can I also say sorry to the frog?
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 August 2021 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 209 →Katy Perry. I hired a Russell Brand lookalike as a joke for the radio, and she thought it was actually him. When she realised it wasn’t, she burst into tears. She was still married to him, but I didn’t take into account that there were things going on that we didn’t know.
Anyone whose party I said I’d go to and didn’t turn up. I can get quite socially anxious at times.
I think that’s a thesis.
More from Tracy-Ann Oberman
View profile →I am a living self-help book – I’ve managed to train myself to never regret anything.
A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.
An actress. My family thought it was ridiculous, it was like saying you wanted to be an astronaut.
Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
More on failure & regret
- What has been your biggest disappointment? 366 answers
- If you could edit your past, what would you change? 203 answers
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 122 answers
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 122 answers
- How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? 63 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 36 answers
Also answered this
Charles Dance, Floella Benjamin, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Michelle Dockery, Adjoa Andoh, Kelsey Grammer
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject