Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

[TBRS1]

If I told you to imagine a circle, with two horizontally parallel dots a little above the midpoint, and, near the bottom, a wide "U" shape, would you have enough information to decide?

 

[Rodafina]

What if I don't like being told what to do?

 

[TBRS1]

Is there a safe way to answer that which won't sound as if I'm trying to tell you what to do?

 

[NDR2]

What danger is there is answering in a way that sounds as if you’re trying to tell someone what to do?

 

[TBRS1]

What if you're talking to someone who has, not explicitly stated, but implied, that they don't like being told what to do, and you want to be polite?

 

[AuAL]

Couldn’t you suggest that someone else might do this?

 

[tree]

What would be the point of doing that?

 

[TBRS1]

Isn't it generally highly effective to off-load unpleasant work to freelancers, thus keeping one's hands squeaky clean and simultaneously maintaining plausible deniability?

 

[NDR2]

What if the bathroom towel’s dirty?

 

[TBRS1]

Isn't that about when the least lazy person in the house tosses it it the laundry so the most lazy person in the house has to dry their hands on their shirt?

 

[NDR2]

Not on their pants?

 

[TBRS1]

Can you imagine what would happen if you came out of the restaurant restroom with a big wet spot on your trousers?

 

[NDR2]

Why not just carry sanitizer?

 

[TBRS1]

Have you ever tried to find a really fashionable utility belt to carry all the little necessities of modern life, especially in green, to match my shoes?

 

[NDR2]

Fashion is more important to you than life necessities?

 

[TBRS1]

If I can look spiffy AND have a utility belt to carry hand sanitizer, bug spray, bear spray, emergency flares, a first aid kit, passports with several different names and nationalities, wads of loose bills, my keys, a communications device, and a phaser pistol, in green, why shouldn't I?

 

[Rodafina]

Wouldn't all that be a bit heavy and cumbersome?

 

[TBRS1]

Is that a polite way of suggesting that my utility belt makes my butt look fat?

 

[Rodafina]

Is that something you worry about?

 

[TBRS1]

Is being painfully self conscious the same as being worried?