# What's the worst situation you could be upfront and personal about something? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-situation-you-could-be-upfront-and-personal-about-something/679001 "2014-01-16T21:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-situation-you-could-be-upfront-and-personal-about-something/679001/21 "2014-01-17T20:48:10Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > It was a political canvass and one by one, my guys kept coming in to say they needed the day off to go get treated. Needed the day off to go get treated? 😕 Haven’t they heard of [RID shampoo?](http://www.amazon.com/RID-lice-killing-shampoo-conditioner/dp/B000GCVYD4/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1389991557&sr=8-14&keywords=crab+shampoo) It’s OTC. You can treat yourself at home in a spare half-hour. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-situation-you-could-be-upfront-and-personal-about-something/679001/22 "2014-01-17T21:17:52Z")
Beats me, it was twenty years ago. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-situation-you-could-be-upfront-and-personal-about-something/679001/23 "2014-01-17T21:58:35Z")
If I had crabs, I’d just tell the boss I needed to take the day off. I can’t imagine the kind of duress needed for me to reveal the reason. And to my boss, of all people. Maybe it’s a guy thing? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-situation-you-could-be-upfront-and-personal-about-something/679001/24 "2014-01-18T02:09:55Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I thought it was just me. > > I think he’s saying “what’s the worst situation [you can imagine in which] you could be upfront and personal about something,” but I don’t really know what that means either. > > Maybe “in what situation would it be the most inappropriate to be upfront and personal”? Or “what was the worst situation you were in where you had to be upfront and personal [with someone] about something?” Seemingly, everyone else in the thread understands the question to mean, “What is the worst personal problem you can imagine someone else having, about which you would be willing to be upfront about with them?” As everyone else apparently understands this, the problem must lie with our own reading comprehension skills. ---
**Author:** ![runningdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@runningdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runningdude)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-situation-you-could-be-upfront-and-personal-about-something/679001/25 "2014-01-18T04:27:56Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Seemingly, everyone else in the thread understands the question to mean, “What is the worst personal problem you can imagine someone else having, about which you would be willing to be upfront about with them?” > > As everyone else apparently understands this, the problem must lie with our own reading comprehension skills. No, one person guessed that’s the meaning, and everyone else is going along because its an interesting topic… ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-situation-you-could-be-upfront-and-personal-about-something/679001/26 "2014-01-18T04:37:27Z")
I am actually slightly more interested in the topic of “WTF exactly did the OP mean with his weirdly-constructed sentence?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-situation-you-could-be-upfront-and-personal-about-something/679001.md?page=1)