What question do you get asked too often?

hearthemelody
hearthemelody Posts: 1,025 Member
edited November 8 in Chit-Chat
For me, it is "Why don't you want kids?"

Well, random stranger, let me explain how it is none of your business...
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  • Joannah700
    Joannah700 Posts: 2,665 Member
    "What are you?"

    Sooo many ways to respond.

    When I start simple - female, hungry, American...they typically roll their eyes, then say, "but what is your background? What's your ethnicity?"
  • knitapeace
    knitapeace Posts: 1,013 Member
    "Have we met?" I have one of those faces.
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  • KameHameHaaaa
    KameHameHaaaa Posts: 837 Member
    Haha I hate the questions about kids! I love being single and childless!!

    I also hate questions from my family about my introversion. I'm not shy, I just like people in small doses only.

    I'd also like to be able to occasionally express certain beliefs and opinions without "Are you a libtard?" being a response. Ugh.
  • wolfsbayne
    wolfsbayne Posts: 3,116 Member
    Right now, it's "are you doing ok?" followed by "how are the boys?"
  • cakebatter07
    cakebatter07 Posts: 814 Member
    My boob size
  • jacques57
    jacques57 Posts: 2,129 Member
    "Have you always been this way?"

    "Are you doing something about it?"
  • bago08
    bago08 Posts: 360 Member
    why is your goatee grey but your hair isnt? Followed by.. You should shave the goatee
  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    Women: What's your puppies name?
    Men: How long have you been working out?
  • Hockey_Winger
    Hockey_Winger Posts: 1,164 Member
    bago08 wrote: »
    why is your goatee grey but your hair isnt? Followed by.. You should shave the goatee
    Yep, I got that one a lot. I finally shaved the one I had for 15ish years this summer. Oddly enough, I don't miss it.
  • wolfsbayne
    wolfsbayne Posts: 3,116 Member
    Chieflrg wrote: »
    Women: What's your puppies name?
    Men: How long have you been working out?

    Well played on the puppy. They're chick magnets.

  • Adc7225
    Adc7225 Posts: 1,318 Member
    Are you still on a diet? I have never been on a diet, this is usally asked when I am eating something someone thinks I shouldn't be eating!

    My favorite - What are you doing? - quickly followed by total disinterest when I mention counting calories . . .
  • bago08
    bago08 Posts: 360 Member
    Hockey_Winger wrote: »
    bago08 wrote: »
    why is your goatee grey but your hair isnt? Followed by.. You should shave the goatee
    Yep, I got that one a lot. I finally shaved the one I had for 15ish years this summer. Oddly enough, I don't miss it.

    Mine turned 18 this month. Hate to part with it.
  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
    Why do you run? (If you need to ask, you'll never understand the answer).
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  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
    jtexasflood wrote: »
    Adc7225 wrote: »
    Are you still on a diet? I have never been on a diet, this is usally asked when I am eating something someone thinks I shouldn't be eating!

    My favorite - What are you doing? - quickly followed by total disinterest when I mention counting calories . . .

    That's why I usually just say I'm eating right and exercising. If they want more specifics, I gladly share it with them. I think there may be a stigma attached to counting calories. I know I had my own preconceived notions about it.

    Or, "Is that on your diet?"
  • robinkay2
    robinkay2 Posts: 46 Member
    "Is that your real hair color?" (why yes, yes it is!)
  • SheBeButLittleSheisFierce
    SheBeButLittleSheisFierce Posts: 690 Member
    edited October 2014
    "So, how short are you?"
    oh and "did you know if you were taller you wouldn't look like you need to lose weight....you are just so compact"
  • DINO1264
    DINO1264 Posts: 63 Member
    "Wow! You look like you are losing weight, is everything ok?"
    I have responded, more than once with, " The doctors don't know yet. They are waiting on results of a biopsy."
    The look on their faces is slightly more than priceless.
  • Booksandbeaches
    Booksandbeaches Posts: 1,791 Member
    Joannah700 wrote: »
    "What are you?"

    Sooo many ways to respond.

    When I start simple - female, hungry, American...they typically roll their eyes, then say, "but what is your background? What's your ethnicity?"

    This.

    I get asked this quite often too because I have an exotic look apparently.
  • Misshodge64
    Misshodge64 Posts: 8,588 Member
    Why are you not married or when are you going to get a husband.

    Number 1
  • sentaruu
    sentaruu Posts: 2,206 Member
    Glynn20 wrote: »
    Why do you run? (If you need to ask, you'll never understand the answer).

    I run and I still don't know the answer...
  • sunburntgalaxy
    sunburntgalaxy Posts: 455 Member
    hearthemelody wrote: »
    For me, it is "Why don't you want kids?"

    Well, random stranger, let me explain how it is none of your business...

    I don't have kids (I am 42) and people assume it is because I don't want them and so I do get asked that. See, for me - I would love to have kids, I just can't. So yeah, that is an awful question to ask someone without kids. The fact that I can't have them is very painful and the question just brings all that up.

    And since I have lost weight I get a lot of questions about that - especially how much do I want to lose and how much do I want to weigh - sorry but that is none of anyone's business. I am looking to lose more than 100 lbs but I don't want people to know that - I carried it pretty well but seriously it seems obvious that I probably need to lose a lot. It is embarrassing - why do people ask that kind of stuff?
  • tchell99
    tchell99 Posts: 434 Member
    Misshodge64 wrote: »
    Why are you not married or when are you going to get a husband.

    Number 1

    This. I know they mean well, but just...sigh.

    Plus the "oh, you still have time" on the kid thing, usually after I've just said I don't want one. I love kids. Just don't want one of my own. Some people are confused by that.

  • SheBeButLittleSheisFierce
    SheBeButLittleSheisFierce Posts: 690 Member
    ^^^agreed....why just because I was fluffy and now I'm less fluffy do people think they can ask me specifics about my fluffiness!
  • tchell99
    tchell99 Posts: 434 Member
    sunburntgalaxy wrote: »
    hearthemelody wrote: »
    For me, it is "Why don't you want kids?"

    Well, random stranger, let me explain how it is none of your business...

    I don't have kids (I am 42) and people assume it is because I don't want them and so I do get asked that. See, for me - I would love to have kids, I just can't. So yeah, that is an awful question to ask someone without kids. The fact that I can't have them is very painful and the question just brings all that up.

    I am so sorry you get this. People just don't think sometimes.

  • hearthemelody
    hearthemelody Posts: 1,025 Member
    sunburntgalaxy wrote: »
    hearthemelody wrote: »
    For me, it is "Why don't you want kids?"

    Well, random stranger, let me explain how it is none of your business...

    I don't have kids (I am 42) and people assume it is because I don't want them and so I do get asked that. See, for me - I would love to have kids, I just can't. So yeah, that is an awful question to ask someone without kids. The fact that I can't have them is very painful and the question just brings all that up.

    And since I have lost weight I get a lot of questions about that - especially how much do I want to lose and how much do I want to weigh - sorry but that is none of anyone's business. I am looking to lose more than 100 lbs but I don't want people to know that - I carried it pretty well but seriously it seems obvious that I probably need to lose a lot. It is embarrassing - why do people ask that kind of stuff?

    I, too, am sorry that this is such a painful topic for you. I cannot imagine wanting kids and not being able to have them. I read it suggested that I (not wanting kids) could just tell people that I could not have kids. I feel like that would be wrong on so many levels, not the least of which is that it would diminish your very real experiences and emotions.

    I wish you many good things.
  • Misshodge64
    Misshodge64 Posts: 8,588 Member
    tchell99 wrote: »
    sunburntgalaxy wrote: »
    hearthemelody wrote: »
    For me, it is "Why don't you want kids?"

    Well, random stranger, let me explain how it is none of your business...

    I don't have kids (I am 42) and people assume it is because I don't want them and so I do get asked that. See, for me - I would love to have kids, I just can't. So yeah, that is an awful question to ask someone without kids. The fact that I can't have them is very painful and the question just brings all that up.

    I am so sorry you get this. People just don't think sometimes.
    I have no husband cause I told them no.
  • dkewatson
    dkewatson Posts: 1,415 Member
    What's it's name? ... His name is Magnus, in reference to my dog who is usually out on runs or hiking with me.
  • tchell99
    tchell99 Posts: 434 Member
    Misshodge64 wrote: »
    tchell99 wrote: »
    sunburntgalaxy wrote: »
    hearthemelody wrote: »
    For me, it is "Why don't you want kids?"

    Well, random stranger, let me explain how it is none of your business...

    I don't have kids (I am 42) and people assume it is because I don't want them and so I do get asked that. See, for me - I would love to have kids, I just can't. So yeah, that is an awful question to ask someone without kids. The fact that I can't have them is very painful and the question just brings all that up.

    I am so sorry you get this. People just don't think sometimes.
    I have no husband cause I told them no.

    That comment was meant for Sunburnt, but I am sure that is true. Dodged a few bullets myself along the way. ;)
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