Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring 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, 24 September 2016 source ↗
On a flight, last February, from Atlanta to Rio. We went through a storm and I was convinced that the plane was going down. The overhead cabins were opening, everything was falling out, people were screaming and I was hanging on to my seat.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
Every time I let my wife drive.
The print size in my mind decreased with time’s incremental decline, and as I arrived at the last word – weeks – it suddenly struck me, with all the force of the fullest sense of the word ‘struck’, that this could actually be his answer and not just the logical next time period in my sentence. Every cell in my body, except those responsible for maintaining a reasonable, calm exterior, was now lindy-hopping at that possibility, the only one that hadn’t occurred to me until that moment.
Labour losing the 2015 election: we weren’t able to help the people who needed us most.
I would have had more time with my dad before he passed away.
To my wife Saadiya, for interrupting too many evenings, weekends and family holidays with work.
Mo Farah represents everything that’s great about our country.
As a mayor who made London better for all Londoners, and as a good husband and dad.
John Lewis, Clive Myrie, Winston Churchill, Edwina Currie, Louis Theroux, Anita Rani
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