# What question do you wish people would ask you more often? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079 "2018-05-29T18:51:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/1 "2018-05-29T18:51:40Z")
For that matter, what question are you tired of people asking you? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/2 "2018-05-29T19:01:37Z")
Ask me about my grand kids? You’ll be sorry you did. I try not to over indulge in this activity, really I do. I don’t like to be asked about my health, in general. If I am sick and you bring me chicken soup, I will tell all. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/3 "2018-05-29T19:31:49Z")
I’d like someone to sincerely ask how I am or how was my day/weekend off. It’s just a common friendly question and I give the expected brief positive answer, but I wish I had someone to tell the reality to. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/4 "2018-05-29T19:42:16Z")
_“Will you let me give you this bag of cash?”_ ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/5 "2018-05-29T19:45:04Z")
“_Why do you think that?_” Or if we really want to get down: “Why do I think that?” There’s a reason people didn’t like Socrates. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/6 "2018-05-29T19:46:22Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > What question do you wish people would ask you more often? “What are your thoughts on this matter?”😕 > [@](#): > > For that matter, what question are you tired of people asking you? “How’d you get so tall?” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/7 "2018-05-29T19:53:50Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _“Will you let me give you this bag of cash?”_ That reminds me, I hate it when my Son-wrekker asks me how much cash do I have on hand. Next question is "Can I borrow it?’ Its amazing in nearly the 12 years he’s been an adult he’s never paid any of it back. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/8 "2018-05-29T20:06:51Z")
“What are you reading?” As long as they don’t ask while I’m actually doing it! I really don’t know many readers IRL so I never have anyone to talk to about it. I’ve found that if I’m reading something really interesting, no one will ask me about it no matter how much I flash it around. If I’m reading something a little embarrassing, (“Oh, a book by Clinton Kelly, you know that guy from What Not to Wear”) that’s when people will suddenly want to know. :smack: Also, my husband never _ever_ asks me about it, which I find a little strange. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/9 "2018-05-29T20:11:26Z")
Dung, my husband asks what I am reading and then promptly cuts me off when I start to tell him. Pisses me right off. I dont expect him to like everything I read, but still. So rude. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/10 "2018-05-29T21:58:30Z")
Just say “Necronomicon” every time. Not “The Necronomicon”, just “Necronomicon” and nothing further. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/11 "2018-05-30T15:11:40Z")
What would I like people to ask me more often? Damn, that’s a good one. It’s hard to come up with a non-flippant answer. Maybe, “Would you like a full time, well paying job playing music?” Less often? “Is that a cello?” (I play upright bass) Or the king daddy of them all: "What are you doing next (random date)? That’s usually a prelude to asking me to do something I might not want to do, and then I can’t really say no, because I already told them I’m not busy. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/12 "2018-05-30T15:38:00Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > 😕“How’d you get so tall?” :smack: “Lack of gravity on my home planet.” ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/13 "2018-05-30T16:27:53Z")
Good one. I am sole caregiver to my 96 year old mother. She is very independent, and I am able to do quite a bit of socializing, volunteering, etc. between taking care of her needs. My personal internal joke is that I should wear a t-shirt that has two words on it: “She’s fine.” Nobody ever asks how I am. ---
**Author:** ![senoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@senoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senoy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/14 "2018-05-30T16:46:46Z")
“Would you like me to give you a million dollars?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/15 "2018-05-30T18:22:28Z")
I wish people would ask me “Why do your hands shake?” more often. Most folks just make assumptions, and they’re never right. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/16 "2018-05-30T18:37:40Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Just say “Necronomicon” every time. Not “The Necronomicon”, just “Necronomicon” and nothing further. 😉 I will remember this for books. I have a small silver box on a cord that I wear around my neck. It has Celtic knots on it. I don’t know why it irritates me that people ask what’s in the box. It’s tiny, like maybe a half inch cubed. I don’t know what they think could be in there, but they ask. I have started looking these askers dead in the eye, and completely expressionless, respond, “The souls of my enemies.” ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/17 "2018-05-30T19:17:31Z")
Tired of is easiest so I’ll hit that first — “are you OK”. I’ve had a few health issues and I am not all that shy about it. But the result is every time I stop for a second someone things I’m going to go all Fred Sanford The Big One and drop down right then and there. Want — “how’s your Dad”. He’s been dead for 17 years and I am at the age where I am old enough that folks just assume my father would be dead. But I miss him every day and I miss being young enough that it was one of the usual questions to get asked. Not asked but I will answer anyway; most dangerous question to get asked — “what’s your opinion”. Rarely does the person asking want my opinion; they want some form of theirs parroted back. Sorry, that just isn’t my style for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/18 "2018-05-30T19:58:10Z")
Asked more (or ever): Me and my sorority sisters are having a contest, would you be the judge? Asked less: Do you know how fast you were going? ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/19 "2018-05-31T01:18:23Z")
Netflix and chill? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079/20 "2018-05-31T01:54:04Z")
“What was it like in \*\*\*?” I’ve traveled to 150 countries and nobody ever asks me about my experiences or what Ive seen or done there or even about travel in general. Second: “Can I buy lunch?” Wish they would not ask: “Where did you lose it?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-question-do-you-wish-people-would-ask-you-more-often/815079.md?page=2)