Unexpected questions.

[rivka]

It's rare that I find myself at a loss for words. But then again, it's rare that a research participant asks me, over the course of perhaps fifteen minutes:

1. Do you have midgets or dwarves in your family?
2. Can I call you Beckybeck?
3. You like giving people money, don't you?

I am nonplussed.

Comments

[ailbhe]

Um. I've never, ever heard Beckybeck before.

(I like giving people money, though).

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Sounds like time to haul out the oh-so-polite-but-firm "Nooooo ..." that I'm pretty sure you've cultivated.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

well!

answer the questions!

your adoring audience wants to know!

[rivka.livejournal.com]

answer the questions!

your adoring audience wants to know!

You just try calling me Beckybeck sometime, in person, and see what happens.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I want to be a safe distance away, behind something solid but still where I can see, when she does that.

But what about the money part?

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I imagin it'd be about the same as if someone tried to call me "Davy"...

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

Maybe he thinks he's conducting counterresearch?

I think I'm with Pat on the response...

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I've definitely run into a few people who would ask questions like that, for example on the bus. One wanted to come to work with me (I was walking to work). By the fact that you apparently haven't met someone like that before, I'm now wondering if I attract them.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

Sounds like the first few questions from one of those lj survey meme thingies. Perhaps you should compose another dozen or so equally silly questions and release it into the wild. :-)

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

I am nonplussed.
Should we call you "Nonplussed" instead of "Beckybeck", then?
(It could have been worse; said research participant might have been a Harry Potter fan and asked to call you "Buckybeck" (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/bestiary/buckbeak.html).)

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Can I call you Beckybeck?

This is when you should show him one of your targets with all the bullet holes grouped into a nice tight one-inch group.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

LOL Well, on Roseanne, they sometimes call Becky "Beckybeck."

And you do give money away, right?

I wonder if he thought of the midgets or dwarves because of your arm.

All in all, though, he sounds a bit unreliable.