How to Avoid Answering Questions You Cannot Answer
You can find yourself in an awkward position sometimes, especially when you are trying to avoid a person who straightaway launches at you with some stupid question. It is hard to avoid answering the question at that moment. You can avoid it by using some clever tricks such as all of sudden taking out your mobile phone from your pocket or purse and say hello as if some one has just phoned you. Another way is to ask an even difficult but related question to that person and by the time he finds an answer to your question, the situation might be over or its awkwardness at least is gone. But you do not face stupid people asking stupid questions all the time, and that too at the wrong time, you can some time do not answer to genuine question i.e. from your child or student. At that moment do not get away without answering it, and if you do not know an answer to it, be honest and excuse yourself, or if it is from a student, you can ask for time to look into the matter. Honesty is the best policy and can save you from further embarrassment in front of people you know, especially in front of your social circle. So be straight to say no for the time being and ask for time to find an answer to it, but you can certainly play with tricks to avoid answering a stupid question.
Instructions
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Be Honest, Take Your Time
Telling truth is always better in most of the situations. If you are asked a question in a gathering, at a school by your students or in any other setting, especially when you know people who are asking a question to you, be honest to reply whatever you know. If you do not know an answer at all, excuse yourself with a genuine gesture and may be seek some time to find an appropriate answer to the particular query. Being bold and honest helps more than being fake or playing a liar. It can some time expose you in front of your social circle -
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Ask Question to Question Your are Asked
If you are stuck in a situation that a person you know a little or do not know at all asks you a stupid question, or tries to complicate situation for you out of an irrelevant question, you should not waste time and pose him/her a question to the question he has asked to you. Try look more curious and fake your question to be more difficult. It is likely that by the time he/she answers your question, which might be even too difficult to be answered at all, the situation will be over. It is also likely that the person who asks you a question find an embarrassing situation for himself/herself. -
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Answer Your Silent Phone
If your are put in a situation to answer a stupid or irrelevant or slang question, which you do not want to answer to, but cannot think of another excuse at that time, just take out your mobile phone from your pocket or purse and answer it saying Hello, How Are You, just to pretend that you got a call from someone. It is better you talk more on the phone, because generally a person standing or sitting nearby can hear the incoming voice from the phone and if you are silent and there is no other genuine voice, you can get caught that call is fake gesture from you. So just keep on talking and talking for a while and in the meantime the person who asks the question might be ready to depart you or forgot what he/she had asked you. -
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Get Attention of Another Nearby Person You Might Know
If you are asked a stupid question or a question you do not want to answer to, and cannot think of any excuse, try to see anyone nearby who might know you. Even before he/she looks at you, just say Hello/Hi, How Are You, Haven't Seen You Lately, and walk or even run towards that direction. Although you know you are doing it at purpose, this will allow you time to get rid of the person whose question you do not want to answer to.
