# How would you respond to someone asking this question **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348 "2021-09-09T03:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dope1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dope1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dope1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/1 "2021-09-09T03:47:43Z")
How would you respond to someone asking why are you sweating like that? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/2 "2021-09-09T03:58:25Z")
“Why do you ask?” ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/3 "2021-09-09T04:01:27Z")
If it’s my doctor, wife, or child, I’d tell them why I thought I was. If it was very hot or I’d just been exercising, I’d probably tell anyone as well. If there was no obvious reason, or if the asker thought I was nervous about something, I’d probably not answer or ask a question back, like “why?” ---
**Author:** ![dope1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dope1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dope1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/4 "2021-09-09T04:06:29Z")
A coworker ask me this question just now while passing by and although I didn’t respond to the question it made me think. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/5 "2021-09-09T04:12:47Z")
I’d probably say that I’m just a naturally sweaty person (which is true). ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/6 "2021-09-09T04:23:33Z")
> [@dope1](#): > > I didn’t respond to the question it made me think Sounds like the co-worker isn’t very socially skilled or sensitive. Your reaction seems safe and certainly more appropriate than their question. I probably would have slightly shrugged my shoulders and said ‘hmmph’ quietly, then gone about my job. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/7 "2021-09-09T04:25:14Z")
“Genetics.” ---
**Author:** ![dope1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dope1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dope1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/8 "2021-09-09T04:53:44Z")
Wow that was quite a good deduction on your part as he gets quite a lot of complaints against him from the students and teachers (I work in a college) saying he talks very aggressively which he does. But the management takes his side saying he’s a hard worker which he is. ---
**Author:** ![dope1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dope1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dope1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/9 "2021-09-09T04:59:11Z")
I do wish I was one of those people who could walk for quite a distance and wouldn’t break a sweat. I knew a guy like that once and although in theory sweating makes your body cooler the lack of sweating really didn’t seem to make him uncomfortable which was interesting. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/10 "2021-09-09T05:15:38Z")
“Apocrine glands, dumbass.” ---
**Author:** ![dope1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dope1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dope1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/11 "2021-09-09T05:21:20Z")
Nice one will have remember that one. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/12 "2021-09-09T05:27:41Z")
Alternately, “Why, was I doing it wrong?” I mean, really, what a rude and pointless question to ask someone. ---
**Author:** ![dope1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dope1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dope1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/13 "2021-09-09T05:32:03Z")
Indeed man. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/14 "2021-09-09T09:41:16Z")
“Just lucky I guess.” ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/15 "2021-09-09T09:43:17Z")
It’s the only way that I know how to sweat. ---
**Author:** ![dope1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@dope1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dope1)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/16 "2021-09-09T10:00:03Z")
Well then that smart ass might ask "I didn’t ask how I asked why? " ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/17 "2021-09-09T10:38:41Z")
manhunt. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/18 "2021-09-09T10:47:05Z")
“'Cause of all the ass I just got done kicking.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/19 "2021-09-09T11:47:30Z")
If I thought they person was just being rude and intrusive, I’d make up the most embarrassing reason I could think of. Of course, now I can’t think of any… ---
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348/20 "2021-09-09T11:52:12Z")
This is a really interesting question for me, as I sweat easily and, consequently worry about what it looks like, which then causes more sweat etc etc. Like dope1 I’m not one of those who doesn’t sweat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-respond-to-someone-asking-this-question/950348.md?page=2)