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.
I am a bit of a procrastinator.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
My intense self-loathing.
I’m not into self-deploring.
Being judgmental.
Still biting my nails.
The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
Persevering with a career that was predicted to last six months and still being here four decades later.
I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
Kind, funny, moany – I do love a moan.
Can’t remember.
Sleep apnoea and tinnitus.
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