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Do you have any allergies?

Daily writing prompt
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

I would say that being asked by a complete stranger about my allergies always makes me extremely nervous. I always say no, but I really don’t know for definite if I or my pet (whom I may be answering on behalf of ) have any or are likely to develop them in the next five seconds.

The context in which I’m asked usually is health related, or pet health related. I jokingly say

“not that I’m aware of”

But all I get is a blank look and

“we’ll get on then.”

They’ve asked the question, they’ve covered their back sides and left me to worry about the unknown. The possibility that one of those weird ingredients on whatever has just been injected into me will turn me into a quivering mass on the floor, gasping for an epi-pen. Or as in the case of my AI Generated Image, not being able to understand what is being said to me by the worried looking medical man.

AI Generated Image

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The One Question I Hate To Be Asked

Where do you see yourself in five years?

“Where do you see yourself in five years?”

No matter how many times I’ve answered that question, I’ve never gotten it right.

There is no right or wrong answer; I hear the personnel manager saying,but there must be as I never got the job.

It matters not to me today.

“Who knows?” I would say now.”I’m not a great omnipotent being who can predict the future?Are you?Suppose the No.9 bus has your name on it and you can’t escape it running over you in the supermarket as you look for your sugar free oat milk. Anything is possible ,and anything can happen.I’m too young to retire,but ideally, I would like a few beach holidays in the next five years. But,perhaps that’s wishful thinking, not as you propose planning ahead.

Planning  ahead,that’s scary.Maybe none of us will be here in five years .Maybe the government will decide we’re surplus to requirements and dispose of us like so much rubbish.Maybe I will win the lottery or a publishing deal.There are a lot of maybes.

At the moment, all I can see is  getting this job and learning your computer system and becoming a useful wage slave to this Company. “

Oh I wish I’d said that,it probably would have got me the job!

Still it’s a horrible question.

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