Questions that I still don't have a good answer to

Meanwhile, I have been walking around on earth for almost 27 years and consider myself a fairly communicative person. But still, there are a few situations where I am left speechless every time. Where I truly have no idea how to respond nicely and politely, or even at all. If anyone knows, feel free to say it.

“Why don't you have a boyfriend?”

This situation of single shaming we have discussed extensively here but it remains a hot topic. Why do people ask this question? What kind of answer do people expect?

“Did it all work out?”

You get that question when you walk out of a fitting room, and then I stand there with a pile of “no”, a pile of “yes”, and a pile of “different size” and wonder: um, yes what exactly worked out? Yes, I got some pieces on, others not, but didn't like everything, so yes partly worked out partly not and WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM ME?!

“Oh how lovely, a trip, did you have a good time?”

I have the god-awful luck of having a job that allows me to travel relatively a lot. Recently went to Milan with May, next week to New York, and then of course there are the fashion weeks. Now all those trips are indeed a party, but it is also just work and especially the fashion weeks are, fun as they are, incredibly heavy and very exhausting. Only if you say that, you are an ungrateful snob so I always mumble something about how wonderful it indeed was and then everyone is happy. But actually, I still don't really have a good answer to that.

“Hi how are you doing today?”

I'm going to get that question all day again in New York. Every store or restaurant you walk into starts with the question “Hiiiiiiiiiiiii how are YOU doing today?” and that is just a polite question so you have to say “fine thank you” but it always makes me very uncomfortable, I stumble over my words and that results in a weird mumble that nobody is happy about.

“Why do you always lose everything?”

This one comes from Jet, who, indeed, always loses everything. But it's not like she does it on purpose so why does she do it? Yes hello, how would she know.

“And, when are the kids coming?”

Input from Josselin who has been very happy with her boy for years and therefore gets asked every other day when she is going to start giving birth. Why do people meddle in that so much? It's nobody's business, right? And when the time comes, you'll surely hear about it so just leave me alone.