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What question (when asked in "real life", not Fluther) makes your blood boil?

Asked by FutureMemory (24753points) May 3rd, 2011

“Are you awake?”

NO, but I am now!

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klutzaroo's avatar

Any question implying that my religious beliefs are inferior to the person asking a rude personal question.

Hibernate's avatar

There was a similar question. ^^

Anyway my question is ” how do you do ? ”
[ I prefer someone’s answer How do you don’t ? ^^ ]

This question pisses me off but I never toked the time to figure it out why. Maybe it’s in my cells.

takeachance's avatar

How far have you been with a guy?
Like honestly does it matter!!

augustlan's avatar

Not so much anymore, since my hair is a faded shadow of the glorious red it used to be, but:

Does the carpet match the drapes? (One of the creepiest ways of asking if I’m a natural redhead.)

By the way, the answer is yes.

ucme's avatar

“What fucking time do you call this then!?!” When asked by the wife on the rare occasion I come home in the middle of the night….drunk! Not so much the question, but the way she says it. Annoying & scary in equal measure.

KatawaGrey's avatar

“Why aren’t you walking at your graduation?”

Mostly, I hate this question because people get angry and try and make me feel guilty about not walking. Usually, I can shut people up by saying either, “If I hadn’t told you, you would have had no idea that I wasn’t going to walk,” to the younger folks who haven’t yet graduated and, “Let’s be honest. If you could have skipped your graduation, would you still have gone?” to the older folks. The older folks usually hang their heads in misery and say, “Well, yeah. Graduation was no fun.” HAH! Right there! That’s your answer!

Like @ucme, it’s not so much the question itself as it is the tone that bothers me.

Aesthetic_Mess's avatar

Don’t you miss real school?
I hate this question because most people that ask it had a great time in high school…Which was not my experience at all. No I don’t miss it…or otherwise I wouldn’t be home schooling…it was my choice to do it.

KatawaGrey's avatar

@Aesthetic_Mess: Right there with ya. High school blew for me, but it seems most of my friends loved high school and don’t understand why I was so happy to leave.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

Wow, 2 boys! They must be trouble and a lot of work, eh?
No, I love them and I don’t think boys are any more ‘trouble’ than girls or any children.

Sunny2's avatar

Reporters covering some horrendous situation asking the victim, “How do you feel?” What do they expect? “O I feel great. I can take 10 times the pain before I faint.” Or ” I was doing great until the third explosion.” Or “Well, now that the rest of the family is dead, there’ll be more dessert for me!”

Berserker's avatar

I hate when I make some statement, or inform someone of something, and they go, really? And then they actually wait for me to say, ya rly.
I understand that, actually, responding this way is them wanting more info or elaboration, but it pisses me off and I can’t help it.

sliceswiththings's avatar

I majored in Psychology. Now I work as a traveling gypsy/street musician. When I honestly answer questions about what I studied, I get:

“So…when are you going to grad school for Psychology?”

Uh, after the second repeat of “Beer Barrel Polka, asshole.”

FutureMemory's avatar

How about when someone responds to surprising news with “you’re kidding!?”

Earlier this morning:

Me: relativeXYZ died.

Dad: you’re kidding!?

Me: as funny as that is, no….

Ron_C's avatar

I had a bill collector call me (not a usual occurrence) and start asking me questions like it was a police investigation. I told him that there was a mix up and the check is in the mail and call me if it doesn’t show up in two or three days. Instead he kept asking questions, he finally got to “are you still employed?” For some reason that really got to me and told him that “it is none of your fucking business! Don’t ever call me again! If you do, I will track you down and hurt you!”

I never reacted like that before. The check evidently arrived and he never called again but I would really like to find the guy and smack him around a bit. I’m never that violent but something in his tone and his questions really got to me. That was probably 15 years ago and I still want to hit that son of a bitch.

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