Questions you hate being asked

[GonvilleBromhead]

I get the colour blind "what colour is that" question. It is intensly irritating, and leads to my usual answer of "How on earth should I know? You're the one who can see the dratted light spectrum correctly, you bally well tell me!"

"Why are you wearing a suit" - my preferred mode of dress is a vintage suit, shirt and tie, so I get this a lot. My usual answer is "because they wouldn't let me kn the train naked" seems to stop it happening again.

"How do you pronounce this word?" - I have a pretty posh English accent, hence the question

"Why exactly were you singing a spoken word version of Gangsta's Paradise whilst wearing the uniform of a First World War British Infantry Officer?" is another one. "Because that's how I roll, mother****ers" seems to quell them

 

[FriendGuy]

Being 6 feet 8 inches tall, whenever someone approaches me for the first time to start a conversation, these questions will inevitibly be the first ones asked:

1: "How tall are you?"

I've taken to making up random heights now...

The second question will always be:

2: "Do you play basketball?"

To which I reply "No, should my unusual height create a greater disposition for liking such the sport?"

I hate it even more when people preface the question of "How tall are you?" with "I know you probably hate being asked this".

Then why are you asking it!?

 

[Pegghead]

I get constantly asked if im american because of the twang in my voice. Im not, Im AUSTRALIAN GODDAMIT!

...dont even sound like a real american....

Holy shit...are you me?!

As for me, "Are you ok?". Now look, if your friend is looking a little down and you ask if there's something troubling them then that's fine (and a very good thing to do). However, just because I'm not, at a particular moment, dancing down the street grinning from ear to ear doesn't mean you can automatically assume there's something wrong with me. I consider myself a pretty happy guy, but a vacant expression doesn't mean I'm considering suicide. Rather, it means that keeping up a big, goofy grin 24 hours a day is both a bit pointless and can get sore after a while.

Another thing people used to ask me is if I'm gay. Why, you looking for a boyfriend? Not that I'm insecure or narrow-minded or anything, but what I want to have sex with is a bit of a personal subject (even if there is nothing to really hide).

I also hate it when people ask me "How do you spell your last name?" Easy. Spell it the way it sounds. D-E-L-G-A-D-O, not Deglardo (Where the fuck did you even get the R?) or Deglado or Delgato.

D-d-Delgado?

Charyou Tree...

 

[Ch@Z]

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

Yup, I get that all the time here in Japan.

I now just say the Japanese word for "English" when they ask me to speak English.

 

[JayElleBee]

"What's your story about?"

Since I wing it when I write stuff and make it up as I go along, I generally have no clue what my story is about. And there's usually a few doses of big gay smut in there too, so the fact it's my mother or grandmother who asks me is just awkward.

 

[SadisticBrownie]

I despise most forms of social contact, especially with relatives. The worst question, however, is easily "what are you going to do?" I just dropped out of Uni, so that one's been pretty frequent.

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

I hate it when kids ask/beg me to join x clan. Because game night friday amd a possible mlg team with a group of sqeakers is wroth it.(its not.)

 

[Dr. Thrax]

D-d-Delgado?

Charyou Tree...

I didn't get the reference until I looked it up. (Yay Google!)
Fortunately for me I'm male, so at least I'd still be alive.

I don't really get the "Are you gay?" question a lot (Other than the "OH MY GOD YOU'RE GAY?!?" when people find out.), I mainly get "Why don't you have a boyfriend?" and "Oh! You and (X) would be so cute together! Why don't you go out?" Because 1) You have crappy taste in men, 2) He's creepy as all hell, 3) I'm not looking for a damn boyfriend as I've told you FIFTY times already, back the fuck off.

 

[gphjr14]

"What are you?" In regards to my ethnicity.

I can't go more than a few months without someone asking me this.
I need to get an arm tattoo of Africa a shamrock and a dream catcher so people will stop asking.

That and people like to touch my hair (it's curly long) which is the main reason I keep it cut short.

 

[Blobpie]

"What are you doing?" "What are you going to do for school?" etc etc

This bothers me because..... I don't know. Nothing interests me at all, I look at all of the occupations out there and nothing appeals to me.

 

[Twilight.falls]

Being 6 feet 8 inches tall, whenever someone approaches me for the first time to start a conversation, these questions will inevitibly be the first ones asked:

1: "How tall are you?"

I've taken to making up random heights now...

The second question will always be:

2: "Do you play basketball?"

To which I reply "No, should my unusual height create a greater disposition for liking such the sport?"

I hate it even more when people preface the question of "How tall are you?" with "I know you probably hate being asked this".

Then why are you asking it!?

I'm somewhat shorter than you, a mere 6 foot 3, but I get asked that a lot. Just as you said, the first thing ANYBODY ever says to me when I meet them is "You're tall, do you play basketball?"

I feel your pain.


I also hate when people ask "What are you listening to?" Do you really need to know? I usually listen to piano and violin, something people my age don't seem to do a whole lot. I get strange looks when I'm in the mood to answer truthfully, otherwise I just say "Music".

Also, I'm half Thai. I don't see it, but a lot of people are able to instantly deduce that I'm asian when they see me. Of course, they always jump to either Chinese of Vietnamese. When I say that I'm Thai they usually ask "Can you speak Asian?!". No, can you speak American? And if you meant "Can you speak Thai?", the answer is still no. I was born in the US, raised in the US, by two English speaking parents.

 

[RemoteControlRox]

"Your name's Roxanne? Like the song?"
No, not like the song. Not at all.

It's only worse if I'm not asked that, but just sung at (good lord that is an atrocious end to that sentence). Yes, har har, how original. It's as if I haven't heard bad singing several million times before.

But I'm pretty sure anyone with a name that's included in a particularly famous song has to deal with that sort of thing. 'S just an irritation. I ignore it for the most part.

 

[ace_of_something]

If you're married and do not have children. People will ask you frequently "when are you gonna have children?"

Being 6 feet 8 inches tall, whenever someone approaches me for the first time to start a conversation, these questions will inevitibly be the first ones asked:

1: "How tall are you?"

I've taken to making up random heights now...

The second question will always be:

2: "Do you play basketball?"

To which I reply "No, should my unusual height create a greater disposition for liking such the sport?"

I hate it even more when people preface the question of "How tall are you?" with "I know you probably hate being asked this".

Then why are you asking it!?

6'6 I feel your pain. Usually I just reply with. "I played hockey"
I really want to say "How much do you weigh?"

 

[Nathan Crumpler]

I hate being asked "What kind of girls do you like?" or "Do you have a girlfriend?" or any other questions about my love life. The problem I have is I have no interest in this subject what so ever, so I don't understand why some one would ask me about my love life. I'm not as annoyed with the question as much as the fact that people do not want to tell me why they want to know. Every time I get this question I don't get the feeling that the person asking me is actually interested in my personal life. It's just a question to ask in order to make small talk, yet they don't want to let up on it despite me clearly not wanting to talk about it.

 

[SoranMBane]

"Are you sure you don't want some [name of meat/dairy/egg-based food here]?"

This one gets asked whenever I'm at another person's house while they're eating, after I've already told them I'm a vegetarian. It's probably out of some misguided sense of courtesy on the asker's part (they probably feel like they're leaving me out or something), so I let it slide, but it's still annoying. Not as annoying as when meat-eaters make the erroneous assumption that I give a shit what other people eat, and get preemptively defensive towards me as a result. But that's an annoyance for another thread.

 

[Jamieson 90]

Someone once asked me, upon finding out im Dyslexic how you catch it, as if its some disease, Its a learning difficulity and I was born with it you ignorant fuck.

Also Why don't you drink? I enjoy the occasional beer but forigve me if I don't want to get shitfaced every weekend.

 

[Chakanus]

"Where did you hide the bodies?" I mean, ugh... If I hid them I don't want them found. Silly police-person.

Ahhh, stupid joke aside, most likely "Do you speak Spanish?". I'm not overly nationalistic by nature, but one should never ask that to a Portuguese.

 

[KiKiweaky]

Agree with the music thing I dont really know how to describe what music I like, I just listen to it and dont turn it off I guess :|

 

[Kevin7557]

How are you? That is the question I absolutely hate most, especially since it's so social that it is impossible to ask it seriously. How are you doing? well I'm going through a bad break up and- Dude I was just saying hi. Seriously now it's like impossible to actually ask about important things or share stuff. okay maybe I'm being a bit hyperbolic.

Whenever I ask that question I always hear the response and help my friends if they are not doing well. It is stupid to ask such a question and not be prepared to deal with the bad if it exists.