Are there any questions you don't really want to know the answer to?

My elderly aunt is now in a nursing home and has been there for two years. Her home is empty and her home phone number was disconnected about a year ago.

One afternoon in October, 2011, I received a phone call from her old disconnected phone number. Her name and phone number was displayed on my cellphone caller ID.

How could this be? First, her home phone number was disconnected. Second, her house is vacant. Third, she never had my cellphone number and no one at her home has ever called my cellphone number. My aunt is still alive.

So…....how did the mysterious phone call occur??

I do not want to know.

@john65pennington – C’mon! You’re a cop! You can get to the bottom of this :-p

Actually, it’s probably a case of outdated information that they never got around to change. Call the phone company and ask that they remove your aunt’s information from that number on their caller id system. And it’s probably just a coincidence that someone who got that as their number called you as a wrong number.

For the record, @bob_ thinks you look hella fine.

Yes and no. If I ask the question, then I want to know the answer. But a lot of times, I don’t ask the question because I have no interest in the answer. Like, I don’t ask people if they’re ok with me being bisexual, because their opinion on the subject doesn’t matter to me, and I’d be offended if they thought that I absolutely must care about their opinion and that’s why their sharing it with me. But if I ask, then I want the answer. So there are things I don’t care to find out, but none phrased in question/answer format.

Asking your unwed teenage daughter if she’s pregnant. I REALLY don’t want to know…

No, though timing matters and I don’t always want the answers to be what they are.

No, I like knowing anything over not knowing. There are some things that are surprising or unsettling to know, but I’d rather know them than not, if it’s something that I’m interested in anyway.

Now I want to know about @john65pennington‘s mother’s phone number appearing on his caller ID, too.

I agree @bob. @nikipedia has cracking tits.

Actually, no. Or I can’t think of anything at the moment.

Yeah, definitely. I apply this way of thinking everyday to anything that may cause unnecessary, pointless stress. I just go about with a “don’t know, don’t care” attitude, and it works pretty well. I can’t ponder and get worried or stressed if I don’t know in the first place. This works well for things that you think may stress or annoy you.

Yes, like how and when I will die. I don’t want to know the answer to that. :(

What’s really inside hot dogs.

Hungryguy, yes I could have investigated and maybe got to the truth. But, she never has had my cellphone number. This was the kicker.

I decided to leave it alone, since the spirits that be, may want to call me again.

I’m not sure I wanna know what the hell this thing growing on my ass is supposed to be.

The calories of what I eat. I HATE that L.A. now requires restaurants to post the calories next to EVERYTHING on their menus.

I’ll just answer this question by simply saying yes and leaving it at that. This is one of the reasons why if I ever had a choice of choosing a special power mind reading would definitely not be the one power I would choose.

Yeah, there are things you don’t want to know the answers to, but it never helps if you don’t ask. You just burn up inside wondering what happened. So it’s best to ask and prepare to be jealous and to learn how to cope with that. It comes with the territory.

I suppose you could be truly enlightened, and not worry about any of your partner’s relationships with anyone else. It might not really matter, but we are human and we are status seekers and we are always trying to find out how we compare. If we lack confidence or self-esteem, we always think the other person is better than we are, and then we fear losing our lover.

It sucks. But what are you going to do? Settle for monogamy? If you’re not that person, good luck. The institution will rot you out, suck you dry, and spit out your soul in a cesspool. Did you ever wish you could have been born a dog? They may compete, but it’s hard to see them being jealous.

That’s a hard one. I’m sure there is information out there that I would not want to know, but I’m a serious, hardcore information collector. I’d rather know than not know, unless there’s something I don’t know about that I don’t yet know that I’d not want to know about :D

@Jude @nikipedia has cracking tits.

We need to start a Fluther Boob Database.

What will the boob categories be?

Cracking?
Pendulous?
Choking?

What?

Seriously, what is a cracking tit? Sounds unpleasant to me. Something you might find on a Greek statue.

@wundayatta I got that from a British friend of mine.