# Questions you really don't want the answer to. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2007, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380 "2007-08-21T16:07:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/21 "2007-08-21T20:32:25Z")
" Do you think the neighbors are having a fire? It looks like it’s in our yard." 11:15 New Year’s Eve some years ago ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/22 "2007-08-21T20:39:17Z")
How about when you don’t even want to hear the question? “Hi, is this David’s mom?” ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/23 "2007-08-21T20:40:50Z")
So, Doc, how long do I have? ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/24 "2007-08-21T20:47:40Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] …you know how the mind of a Doper works. [/QUOTE] No. How does it work? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/25 "2007-08-21T21:15:44Z")
[QUOTE=Surok] No. How does it work? [/QUOTE] Some questions, you don’t want the answer. Others, you just have to be there. ---
**Author:** ![Wonderwall6129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Wonderwall6129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonderwall6129)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/26 "2007-08-21T21:56:45Z")
Why does my toothbrush taste funny? ---
**Author:** ![InLucemEdita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@InLucemEdita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InLucemEdita)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/27 "2007-08-21T22:46:11Z")
Your _what_ hurts? How many guys have you slept with before me? This week? Did the Cubs win? You’re on the pill, right? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Crooked\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@The\_Crooked\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Crooked_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/28 "2007-08-21T23:09:06Z")
At work, my standard answer to these types of questions: ``` "My name is Schultz. I don't know, I don't wanna know." ``` Life is so much easier with this philosphy. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/29 "2007-08-22T00:58:15Z")
Why did that man take a camera into the bathroom with him? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/30 "2007-08-22T01:09:09Z")
These two comments: [QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] How did this $80 cash get into my wallet? [/QUOTE] > [@TroubleAgain](#): > > Just what the hell _did_ I spend my paycheck on, anyway? Were really amusing, back-to-back. Er, not that I’m saying anything about you two, you understand. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/31 "2007-08-22T03:18:01Z")
[QUOTE=Eliphalet] Mine from last week… Why is the police SWAT team, 5 police cars, and an ambulance in front of my hotel at 7:00AM? Nothing so far in the news… Eli [/QUOTE] Was the hotel in Illinois? ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/32 "2007-08-22T03:22:31Z")
Why don’t I cast a reflection in the mirror any more? ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/33 "2007-08-22T09:30:34Z")
Not very funny, but I once saw a young woman and a baby (toddler? She was holding the kid, however old s/he was) standing on the side of a very busy road in North Jersey. It’s kind of hard to describe the layout of the road, but it wasn’t like a street corner, where she might have been waiting for a ride, or a highway entrance, where she might have been panhandling or hitching. It wasn’t even likely that she was hooking, as unpleasant as that thought is, because it was someplace where cars couldn’t safely stop. It simply looked as if she’d been in a car that had stopped, safe or not, and the driver had ordered her out, with the kid, and she was waiting for enough of a break in the traffic so she could get to a building or a phone. I might not be upset by the answer to “What happened afterwards?” but I know I don’t want the answer to “How did they end up there?” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/34 "2007-08-22T12:03:02Z")
Why are all the ads at the bottom of this page for toilets? ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/35 "2007-08-22T12:35:53Z")
After grudgingly agreeing to a sleep-over in the back yard to celebrate my son’s 16th birthday, I awakened at 3:00 a.m. and wondered, “Why are there three policemen in my yard?” My wife put on her housecoat and hurried outside, then came back inside a few minutes later. She actually said to me, “Go back to bed. You don’t want to know.” Ah, blissful ignorance! ---
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/36 "2007-08-22T12:43:47Z")
“Have you had better than me”? ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/37 "2007-08-22T12:44:41Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] These two comments: > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > How did this $80 cash get into my wallet? > [@TroubleAgain](#): > > Just what the hell _did_ I spend my paycheck on, anyway? Were really amusing, back-to-back. Er, not that I’m saying anything about you two, you understand. [/QUOTE] Just how the Hell did I miss catching that? My favorite question that I do not want to know the answer to is “Why did some person do [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8381838&postcount=9)?” And, of course, there’s always diaper Lotto: “How did _that_ get _there_?” It never needs, nor wants, an answer. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/38 "2007-08-22T14:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=InLucemEdita] Your _what_ hurts? How many guys have you slept with before me? This week? Did the Cubs win? You’re on the pill, right? [/QUOTE] All in one conversation, right? ---
**Author:** ![InLucemEdita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ab992/32.png) [@InLucemEdita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InLucemEdita)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/39 "2007-08-22T16:48:19Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV] All in one conversation, right? [/QUOTE] Yes. One conversation. Three people. ---
**Author:** ![Wonderwall6129](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Wonderwall6129](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonderwall6129)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380/40 "2007-08-22T17:05:18Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Just how the Hell did I miss catching that? My favorite question that I do not want to know the answer to is “Why did some person do [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8381838&postcount=9)?” And, of course, there’s always diaper Lotto: “How did _that_ get _there_?” It never needs, nor wants, an answer. [/QUOTE] Ever watch Friends? “My name is Crap Bag. It’s easy to remember- if you ever forget, just think of a bag of crap.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-you-really-dont-want-the-answer-to/416380.md?page=3)