There are a few questions we all have to fudge an answer to, once in a while.
Like the classic, “does my bum look big in this?”—my suggested response to that one is, “I’m sorry, I don’t speak English.”
Here are some other queries you should try to avoid answering…
“What did you think of my screenplay?”
“Would you mind looking after my children?”
“That’s an interesting smell, is coming from you?”
“I forget what meat I used, but, do you want to try my pie?”
Below: from last week’s New Yorker.
It’s Good to Talk
Another one from the New Yorker, 2014.
Sketchbookery
Some thoughts that fell from my head…