Impatience and being bossy.
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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.
I can’t deal with any level of stress.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗
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I dislike my relationship with food. I wish I didn’t love food so much.
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I’m disorganized.
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View profile →I have a deep-rooted fear of being in trouble. I once tried to sneak into the back of a photography exhibition with my husband when one of our kids was in a pushchair. We’d arrived late and he suggested we go in through the gift shop and see the last room. As we poked our heads round the door, the security guard noticed us. I shouted, “That man’s trying to get in!”, then ran away.
In the orange blossom-filled streets of Seville, snogging on a park bench.
I’ve never read any Proust.
I’d probably take out a lot of my 20s, when I was rude, annoying and a brat.
Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.
Hey Ya, by OutKast.
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