In one of
Dave Barry's
columns he declares that the only appropriate response to:
Does this dress make me look fat?
is for the questionee to stick a
fork into one or both
eyes. Much less
painful than answering…
I have taken this to heart, and whenever my wife lets slip an unanswerable question I holler:
Where's my fork?!
She cracks up, I
dodge a bullet, and
innocent bystanders are spared potential unpleasantness.
Kudos to Dave.