# What annoying question does your SO ask you, over and over? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 13, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annoying-question-does-your-so-ask-you-over-and-over/727754 "2015-08-13T17:20:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Heckity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Heckity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heckity)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annoying-question-does-your-so-ask-you-over-and-over/727754/61 "2015-08-21T00:43:11Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > I swear I’m hgoing to open a chain of restaturants named “Anywhere Will Do” “Anything’s Fine” and “I Dunno”. I used to eat at “Someplace Else” it was great 😃 ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annoying-question-does-your-so-ask-you-over-and-over/727754/62 "2015-08-21T00:44:46Z")
Not a question, but pretty much once a week when I am driving: “Don’t hit that guy!” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Gotlift](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9fc348/32.png) [@Gotlift](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gotlift)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annoying-question-does-your-so-ask-you-over-and-over/727754/63 "2015-08-21T17:01:37Z")
> [@Lowdown](#): > > Holy crap. Basically, it’s questions about things we’ve already talked about. Drives me insane. > > Her: Are you cooking dinner? > Me: Yes! Remember this morning when you told me I was in charge of dinner tonight and I said “Ok!”? > Her: I was just making sure! > > IT IS ENDLESS. Yup! Say we’re going out of town… Her: “Did you get the \_\_\_\_\_?” Me: “Yep.” Then we leave… Her: “Did you get the \_\_\_\_\_?” (again) Me: “Yep!” _slightly agitated_ Her: “Damn! I forgot my \_\_\_\_\_! Turn around!” It’s damn near routine now. It isn’t uncommon for us to circle the neighborhood once or twice. But, every time it happens I inevitably get reminded that I’m the one that forgot my I.D. halfway to the airport, when we were already running behind, and we damn near missed our flight after turning around for it. That was 10 years ago! SMH ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annoying-question-does-your-so-ask-you-over-and-over/727754/64 "2015-08-21T18:57:00Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > We don’t have kids, so it is just the two of us, but whenever he wants to ask whether I performed a regular task it’s always in the passive voice (to take the potential agency off himself?) like, " **Did the cat get fed?" I DON’T KNOW! DID YOU FEED HIM?** _I_ haven’t… Oh, are you asking IF _I_ FED HIM? Like, is this a mystery? Who else might have fed the cat?! Elves? Burglars? I almost always feed the cat. Acknowledge it, damn it. OTOH, the highlighted portion is patently absurd. If I’m asking you if the cat’s been feed, you can safely bet that I haven’t fed the cat… otherwise, I’d know. Because I don’t sleep-feed my pets, or suffer from anterograde amnesia, or Korsakoff’s Syndrome. I sense your low-grade rage is not really based on your SO’s choice of passive voice in asking questions. _shrug_ ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annoying-question-does-your-so-ask-you-over-and-over/727754/65 "2015-08-21T18:59:43Z")
> [@overlyverbose](#): > > Also, “How do you [insert any cooking-related task where instructions are located on the package]?” > > And, "How do I light a fire under our children? See, until the rest of that second paragraph, I was worried that “lighting a fire under our children” was another example of “How do you [do cooking-related task]”. Reading comprehension is good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-annoying-question-does-your-so-ask-you-over-and-over/727754/66 "2015-08-21T22:59:05Z")
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