Someone has made a list of what she calls “The World’s Worse Questions.” Are you ready for these?

• Will you promise not to get mad it I ask you something?
• Do you have any statistics to back up that statement?
• You don’t honestly expect me to believe that, do you?
• Haven’t you any sense of humor?
• You don’t remember me, do you?
• Have I kept you waiting?
• NOW what’s the matter?
• You asleep?
• So what?
• WHEN are you going TO GROW UP? (1) The World’s worst questions.

A friend once asked Isaac Isidor Rabi, a Nobel prize winner in science, how he became a scientist.

Rabi replied that every day after school his mother would talk to him about his school day. She wasn’t so much interested in what he had learned that day, but she always inquired, “Did you ask a good question today?”

“Asking go…