Questions you hate being asked

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

"Do you always wear black?"

No, I do actually own other cloths that are not black, but it just so happens that you see me wearing it. I get asked this all the time, and it really doesn't help that my job unofficially requires me to wear all black. I wore a red shirt once and my coworker wanted to know what the special occasion was.

"How come you don't have a boyfriend?"

Because I'm a social cripple and am too damn lazy to get one, is that what you want to hear? That one bothers me, I mean, why do you care if I have one or not? And if I do I'm sure they're gonna wonder when I'm going to get married, dear god. But if so, does that mean I can ask them when can they die? Since for them that would be the next logical step, but I feel it would be too personal a question, unlike theirs to me.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Huh?
Hard to say.
I was recently asked, "You celebrate Christmas, right?"
I appreciate the effort to be mindful of other people, but I live in America (where even most atheists celebrate the holiday) and am as white as it gets so it made me wonder why the person'd ask. It reminded me of how I was once asked if I was satanic, the asker wasn't very bright so I let it slip.

I'd say some of the more annoying are deffinately the one-word answer questions, because I normally end up answering them in one word. I'm not a very out-going person and then the conversation ends. If you want a real conversation, don't ask question people can answer in one question.

 

[solemnwar]

While it's true everyone dies I still can't control the rate at which they die.

Not if you're... aggressive about it >8D *wheeled away*


I hate either
a) Being asked "how are you?" because nobody actually fucking cares, and
b) "What's wrong?" just because I'm not smiling.

GUESS WHAT? NOT EVERYONE'S NEUTRAL EXPRESSION IS A SMILE. MINE IS NOT. My neutral expression is a serious, contemplative face. Probably because I'm usually thinking. But everyone assumes I'm upset :/ Especially annoying at work, since you're supposed to be happy all the goddamn time because apparently if you don't smile at someone for 2 tenths of a second you're a horrible employee and should be fired. And I have tasks that require concentration (it's extremely boring and repetitive, but I can't really afford to mis-price things...) so my default expression slips in :/

 

[StBishop]

it used to be

so what are doing/going to do..I hated it, the most stress inducing horible question ever and the most common one to be asked

its ok now...now I just say "this is my job, its an interesting as it sounds" (ie: not very)

I guess now its

what hobbies do you have/what do you like to do...

"ummmm..I errrr " [small/] Im also an A-social person who really has absolutly nothing to say about what she does because from your perspective I do ABOLUTLY NOTHING in my spare time...because Im pretty sure action figures and comics doesnt count for much in your eyes...which is fine I just dont want to bore you wit the detials, I know you wont understand or be interested .....I supose and I should try and fix that but whenever I get out an offer to go/do somthing I know I wont enjoy it and Im sick of having to do things I dont want to do all my life..so now I dont, and the freinds I used to have I think "what do I have in common with thease people?" not much..not much at all...but thats no excuse because I still might enjoy their company if only I could re-connect but HOW do you do that?? do I really want to? have they forget I exist? so instead I say[/I] [/small]

"I like movies...shopping, reading that kind of thing"

Dudette, you need to own your nerdiness. I'm studying Phys Ed as in Sport and when people ask what I like I say "I'm a nerd, I'm not really very good at sport or dancing and I don't like drinking much, but I love gaming and any book with an elf or dragon in it."

People will respect that you're proud of being into comics and action figures, every time my dad groans about gaming I say to him "It's no different to watching a film" and he disagrees but who cares. He still likes me (possibly due to being my dad but who knows) and so do plenty of other people.

The whole "Don't want to bore you with the details" thing is fine, you don't need to, but you also don't need to hide what you like.

 

[Daggedawg]

"Why don't you drink?"

Honestly, I wish people would just accept my decision not to drink without having to ask, and force me to ruin the mood even more.

Ironically, nobody even seems to consider asking anyone "Why do you drink?"

 

[StBishop]

"Ooo, you speak x language!? Say something in x language!" Does anyone know what to say in any language when asked that?


Also, "Do you like football?" Being English, everyone in this country (China) seems to think we like football. I've nothing against it but I won't watch i if I have a choice.

"I can speak X language". It's what I say when asked to "Say some Japanese" though I don't claim to know the language, I'm merely able to ask for directions and purchase things. Nothing you can't pick up in a few weeks from a podcast.

I hate being asked what I'm doing today but only by my dad, I don't know why but it pisses me off so bad.

I hate when people ask what kind of blank are you into becasue nine times out of ten they don't really care about the answer they just think it will make the silence less awkward.

ALso a new one is What's your degree in because it invokes one of two reactions ewww,(which I don't mind) and why can't you find a job in a funeral home?People seem to think that becasue we all eventually die that this job is recession proof when it's not. While it's true everyone dies I still can't control the rate at which they die.

Not legally anyway.

 

[DarkishFriend]

"Why do you smoke weed?" - No answer is enough here, unless it's someone genuinely curious, it is almost always someone who wants to tell me I'm wrong.

Why are you Athiest?" - Same thing as the the earlier question.

"Why are you Here?" - Asked by my community college teacher, acting as if entry programming is a big deal and I was only screwing around on The Escapist because I was waiting for a download that was taking forever."

 

[Vault101]

it used to be

so what are doing/going to do..I hated it, the most stress inducing horible question ever and the most common one to be asked

its ok now...now I just say "this is my job, its an interesting as it sounds" (ie: not very)

I guess now its

what hobbies do you have/what do you like to do...


"I like movies...shopping, reading that kind of thing"

On topic, I hate being asked what kind of music I like, or what my favourite food is, THERE'S SO MANY!

awww geez...now Im all embarrased

dont worry, Im very happy about what I like and everthing, I dont make en effort to hide it and generally wont shut up about it to anyone who shows even a small amount of interest (I feel sorry for certain people In the past who have been subjected to my motor mouth assult of all things game related)

this reminds me of what I was like in highschool...I thourght if you wanted to be happy and normal you had to be like everyone else...games and stuff was for losers..which I justified my existance by having a wii because the regular game market was testoserone fuels, violent and scary ...or so I thourght(that didnt stop me from putting Wall-e, Batman begins... and lord of the rings posters up though..and agressivly ripping into everything my teenage girl peers liked..much to their annoyance)

and I wont hide it if I think its apropriate to talk about...but somtimes I feel it isnt worth it, Ill just get funny looks, but Im cool with it..but your right, its not so bad thease days, somone knows somone with an Xbox or whos kids have an xbox..for example

anyway...I probably should make en effort to do more things....its just hard when you end up having really no social circle to speak of..which is fine, thats my own doing and Im mostly fine with it...

 

[Chatato]

I have type 1 diabetes too but the question i hate the most is when people find out and ask "oh thats when your not allowed suger/need suger all the time right?" yeah cause i walk around with a glucose drip wired to me dumbass!!

Actually I do sometimes get that asked to me as well, and yeah, it is annoying as hell.

 

[StBishop]

"How are you"...I hate that question, it's so meaningless. Everybody just answers "fine" or something along that line anyway. Why? Because it's just a polite question to ask, nobody really wants to know.


The same thing with "so what have you been up to today" (alt. this week, or this weekend). Do you really want me to tell you everything I've done? Ok, first I woke up, then I had breakfast and bla bla bla...No you don't want to hear that. But if I say "uh, nothing special" I sound boring and miserable. I guess the bottom line is: I hate small talk and meaningless polite phrases.

I'm pretty sure I answer things that aren't fine as often as not.

I regularly say "Sick", "Moody", "Yeah, pretty dodgey actually", "Shitty" etc.

But then again I usually only get asked that by family, friends, and co-workers.

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I'm with this guy!

Seriously, tell someone you're Dutch and they just assume you're wearing clogs and getting stoned.

What really gets to me is that nobody seems to know that Holland is a province, and not in fact, an alternate name for the country The Netherlands.

Learn something new every day.

 

[Techsmart07]

I work in retail, and 3 really irk me.
"Is the store open?" No, we just turn off all of the lights to conserve power, and lock the doors so we can accurately count the number of people in the store at this time [/sarcasm].

"Why don't you do it this way?" (from customer/upper corporate) Let's see, I've worked this counter for 4 years, and you are telling me how to do my job that you probably NEVER worked, or havent in 20-30 years. I've probably tried to do it that way, dozens of times, and all ended in failure (or would get me fired). There's probably a good reason I didn't try it in the first place.

as a follow up to the previous: "Why doesn't it work that way?" Guess what. I don't know. You know who does? The people you are too darn lazy to call and ask why not. I don't make the system, I don't even have any control over the system. Corporate makes that call, I don't. Otherwise, I would have probably done it for you in the first place to get you out of my face.

"Why don't you play [insert big name game] with us? You would like it." Chances are, I won't. I research the games I buy thoroughly (mostly because I don't like wasting money). If I didn't buy it, it didn't make the cut. I get this most with League of Legends. I played the game either during beta, or shortly after it came out (I forget which), and I hated it.

Oddly enough, I have never had anyone ask me if I am American. I am not sure if it is that obvious, or that I just don't fit the stereotype.

 

[The_Echo]

I really hate when people ask me to say something in German (one and a half years of high school German currently under my belt). I generally keep my interest in the language close to my chest because of that.

When I'm asked to explain anything. I'm absolutely horrible at it.

Oh, and when I get asked not to use such "big words." They aren't even that "big" half the time, and I'm sorry I have a larger lexicon than [what appears to be] normal. Read a book sometime, it might help.

 

[Aprilgold]

What colour is this/the sky/grass/whatever? EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. someone finds out I'm colour blind. Eugh it makes me want to punch people.

I bet it does. I think it has something to do with that its interesting, if it makes you feel any better, it is a good party thing when that all you know is that the person is colorblind.

Mine has to be "Aren't Gay Guys supposed to be flamboyant?" Because every single time I want to snap the person neck and feed on their body like a werewolf.

Then again, you can change it to "Aren't X people supposed to be Y sterotype?"

 

[twiceworn]

It boils my piss when I'm chatting to someone online and they say 'so, you not out tonight?'

If I was then we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we, you fucking toolbox.

one word, iphone.

 

[rob_simple]

It boils my piss when I'm chatting to someone online and they say 'so, you not out tonight?'

If I was then we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we, you fucking toolbox.

one word, iphone.

If you're chatting on that though, it says 'this person is chatting via a mobile device' or whatever.

I'm sat on plain-old normal MSN, on a friday night, sad and alone; I hardly need to be reminded

 

[Zerazar]

I just generally heavily dislike being asked questions with obvious answers when I know that they know that the question has an obvious answer.

Parents asking "What are you doing?" while I'm sitting at my computer playing a game. They're not interested in the details, like which game or who I'm playing with or how I'm playing. They're fully expecting "playing a video game" as an answer, and that was just bloody obvious

 

[D0WNT0WN]

"Hey John, why are you so quiet?"
*I proceed to explain that I have a stammer with great difficulty*

And the person who asks me that question looks like a massive cock.

 

[stabbymcstabs]

Are you left handed?
Are you left handed?
Are you left handed?


WELL IM WRITING WITH MY LEFT HAND, WHAT DO YOU THINK!?!?!

 

[Spinozaad]

"So you study history? So you want to be a history teacher?"

NO. GOD DAMN, NO!

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

'What's wrong?'

Usually there's nothing wrong, my blank expression isn't a smile. If there is something wrong, I probably don't want to talk about it. If I wanted to talk about it, I would have.