The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?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.
Outside my very close-knit group of friends, socially I’m terrible.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗
I talk too much.
Impatience and being bossy.
I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
My inferiority complex.
Certainty. I also can’t stand it when someone calls you and then says, “Wait, I need to put my headphones in.”
A house in west London.
A comedian or the guy who drives the little truck around airports that takes old ladies to their gate.
That I’m going to start commenting “Wow” under AI images I think are real.
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
At school, I got my head stuck in a balustrade on the stairs at lunchtime. I had pupils laughing at me, parents laughing at me, teachers laughing at me and eventually, at the end of the day, the fire brigade laughing at me.
Barack Obama, Michael Cunningham, PP Arnold, Luise Rainer, Fran Healy, Adam Lambert
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