why do you like asking people questions?

Because it is a way to know something about something I know nothing about. And a way to find out something about the person I don’t know.

I am reminded of the time after my divorce when I just drove around the US, solo, for nearly a year.

Along the way, I spent time in South Dakota and ended up at the Crazy Horse monument, unfinished, but WAY bigger than Mount Rushmore.

I stopped at a table where two men, uncle and nephew, were selling books.

I stopped. I asked. They answered. The uncle was a Sun dancer, a professor and an author. The nephew was both a rodeo bull rider and a professional golfer.

It opened my eyes to culture straddling and “blending.”

The encounter made it easier to understand how people survive in dual cultures.

Because that is how you learn a person and them. You learn what they love and they care about. What matters to them. I swear it's true, even from the guy working at the convenience store, to the cab driver, when you ask a question, you learn just a little part of their humanity you never would see without.

Because I’d rather listen and learn than share and be vulnerable

Nah, don't like it myself. Answering other people's demand for help is another matter

Because people are stories, and questions are how you turn the pages.



Lol actually I'm just bored.

Well personally it's because people equate it with showing interest and thus caring about them.

When I do so, it's usually because I want to know them.

Because I said so!

I rarely do that.

To get answers?🤔

Sometimes for the sake of conversation, but usually to get needed answers.

Who's asking questions? What did they want to know? What did you tell them? Are they coming back?

That's how they do it on the news.

got to have Questions to get Answers, if no questions what we would talk about.