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What question do you hate being asked?

"So, dig up any dinosaurs then?" which is inevitably asked when I tell people I'm an archaeologist. Being who I am I don’t correct them and say that that would be a palaeontologist, I simply make up far-fetched stores and wait for them to realise they are very slowly being wound up. "Oh, so you design buildings then?"  is nearly as bad and Architects themselves are no better; when the University had its societies fair 6 architects joined "arch soc" the archaeologist society, bevelling it was for architects; despite the togas, trowels and Indiana Jones costumes much in evidence by the recruiters. The best ever response I got was "Wow, So you build speedboats then? How exotic!" by a very attractive if somewhat easily confused girl at a house party. My response was "Yes, yes I do. Brad Pit just bought our companies ‘Monte Carlo’ model in fact."

The fact I was wearing a Cardiff arch Soc t-shirt seemed to have passed her by.  Then again if you think an archaeologists job entails luxury speedboat design it is possible she noticed but attached a rather more glamorous and utterly false significance to it.

Also, As i write this i have an odd sensation of déjà-vu.