It's NONE of your bloody business?

It all started with me hanging out with a more matured (I shall refrain from using the words, 'old' or 'older') friend of mine the other day. She who has travelled the world. She who can boldly said to the rest of us, "Been there, Done that." So you know what I am getting at. You CAN respect this woman's assessment of human beings (and possibly animals too).

Somehow we ended up talking about a family of siblings we are too familiar with. I went, "W is always asking questions. And asking questions that I find hard to answer." For example, she would ask me (in a dan inquisitive face), ''What do you do on weekends?'' And I struggled to answer because my activity list changes every weekend. Some days I cycle, some days I go shopping, some days I go to the movies. And O, some weekends I do nothing. Absolutely nothing. So you see, I have no one fixed schedule for my weekends. More importantly, I don't really feel like telling her what I do or not do over the weekends.

Usually I attempt to answer the much hated question and half the time, I regretted doing so. Why? She would then move on to her next question, "With who?". And then the next, "Where do you go for that?". And then the next and the next.

Sometimes, the questions come with a new twist. And these are the really potent ones. They are what I call 'Opinionated Questions". It can go like this, "O I am surprised you stay home!!" or 'I didn't know you hang out with her!!'. Both of which I find doubly hard to answer. I am often tempted to be rude and say, "Be surprised, VERY SURPRISED!" or "Yes, I hang out with her...because she does not ask me as many questions as you!"

W is not the only one. Her sibling X is similar. I suspect Y and Z too. My matured friend said the siblings just want to ask as many questions as possible so that they can gather as much 'intelligence' as possible and start their gossip sessions amongst themselves.

For me, I suspect they do not really care about the answers. They just have this irritating habit of asking. But for the record, they are not journalists nor potential ones. I need to qualify as there many journalist and ex-journos reading this blog. We were taught to ask the "Why? When? Who? What? How?" for a good reason. For a good story.

My matured friend however, has the last say. She went, "As far as I am concerned, they just love to ask the 'It's none of your bloody business" (to us) questions!"

I can't agree more.