If someone told you not to enter a room and you were nearby, would you? or even other things.
2006-10-21 10:32:56 · 33 answers · asked by ! 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Now, if you are curious about the answer to this question, I have to answer it before I can answer it. That's logic. I am not curious. Therefore I don't want to know the answer to the question, therefore I can't help you. Or can I.? I don't know. This logic stuff takes some getting used to . . .
2006-10-21 10:43:31 · answer #1 · answered by Barks-at-Parrots 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Curiosity has always gotten the better of me. I'm like a cat!
If someone told me not to enter a room, I probably wouldn't. But if they said "there's something really important in there, and I don't want you near it" I would try my best to find out what was in there - short of actually walking in. I'd put my ear against the door, peak under the door, try and look through any holes in the door, or wall immediately surrounding it, or even walk outside and try peaking through a window.
When things aren't right, such as people being upset, or depressed, or mad, or when something just doesn't seem to fit, or I find out someone else got into trouble, I try my best to find out what happened, or what's going on. It really bothers me to only have bits and pieces of information, and not the full story. I have to get to the bottom of things, and find out what's going on. I absolutely must get the full story. And I'll do whatever it takes to find it out, short of whatever someone specifically said NOT to do.
Going back to the forbidden room, I might even OPEN the door, and just not walk in there. Hey, they said don't go IN there, right? So just opening the door doesn't count, right?
I guess that's why I am probably best suited for a job as an investigator. I know how to get the story and skirt the rules, without actually crossing that fine line.
2006-10-21 11:09:08 · answer #2 · answered by ltygress 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No- I would not enter than room. Yes, curiosity can. Everyone should mind their own beeswax. On the other hand, their are some instances where one should be nosy, pending the situation could possibly be dangerous and/or life threatening. The thing about it is that have to know when the time is right. So yes, yes, and yes "curiosity killed the cat..."
2006-10-21 10:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by Grad_gurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 12% of the time
2006-10-21 12:28:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I wouldn't get into the room. First of all, what if there is something disturbing/sick in the room that I should never see? Second of all, its not my room, so I shouldn't be invading that space.
Curiosity does get the better of me though. Its human nature to try and examine what is unknown to better understand it, but there is an appropriate time and place to do that.
2006-10-21 10:36:01 · answer #5 · answered by Patty_08 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that I had to look at the entire question just proved that curiosity got the better of me and all the others who answered.
It is part of our make up. If we weren't curious we wouldn't know as much as we do or have evolved the way we have.
2006-10-21 12:58:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Curiosity is human nature. We may not always act on it but we sure do spend time thinking ob out the what is it? What if? and so on. I think as you grow older you become wiser and we may want to enter the room but most of us would not. I for one would not but I sure would want to.
2006-10-21 11:42:53 · answer #7 · answered by purrfectsandcastle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does get the better of me sometimes. It would depend on who told me not to enter the room. If it was my sister, I'd probably scoff and take a peek. If it were my mother or father, I'd probably stay away.
2006-10-21 10:34:52 · answer #8 · answered by Lady Ettejin of Wern 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I was told not to, I wouldnt. And YES, curiosity sure can get the better of you sometimes. It depends on what the situation is.
2006-10-21 12:39:51 · answer #9 · answered by ~~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Curiosity definately gets the better of small children, but I think that curiosity wanes as we get older (in the majority of people).
2006-10-21 10:45:52 · answer #10 · answered by Nicola L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋