In addition to asking, ‘Who wears white shoes anyway?” there are other questions that require some additional questioning or consideration before posing them.
Several winters ago it had been a while since seeing a coworker and, upon seeing him, I noticed he was limping and asked, “Did you hurt yourself skiing?” “I have MS,” he replied. He wasn’t kidding. I felt like an idiot.
I shared this story with one of the coworkers who witnessed the white shoe question and she told me, “I was in a meeting with someone who kept rubbing her nose so I asked if she had a cold.” “Oh no,” I said and asked, “She didn’t have a cold, did she?” “Nope, Parkinson’s,” she replied.
And the list goes on. Some questions are better left ‘questioned.’