When someone says to you: "Well I've got good news and I've got bad news" which do you ask to hear first?

I get angry.
Here’s the collection of news:
A – the good news
B – the bad news
C – the statement, “Well I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news”

Well, B & C are bad news to me. So, the inclusion of the “we have some good news bad news…” nonsense is adding more bad news. It was 50/50, and now it’s 66/33 bad.

Additionally, for me the labeling of A (the “good news”) as “good” often sets me up in way that the good news can never satisfy.

Communicating the 2 pieces of information without commentary works best for me.

The bad news, so I can get the disappointment out of the way first.

I am a Band-Aid ripper. If I were the bearer of news, I’d get the bad news out of the way first.

Likewise, I prefer the bad told to me first, so it’s hopefully tempered with the good.

Like @tom_g stated, the whole “I have good news and bad news” statement is nonsense.

Good news first!, so I can weigh them with the bad news as I listen to those.

I want the bad news first just to get it out the way so I can bask in the good news.

The bad news. I tend to think that if the good news didn’t make the bad news bearable, they wouldn’t bother telling me that both were coming.

I think people mostly say this in jokes and sitcoms. I don’t hear it much from real people.

The good news. It is affirming, and makes the bad news less of a challenge

The bad news first, so that the good news can cheer me up.

Depends on the day. My husband gives me this option every so often, I don’t think I answer consistently one way or the other.

Eh either way, I’m like, just spit it out, man! Don’t fark wit mah!

Either/or, just cut out the cliche & spit that shit out already.

The bad news first, so the whole thing can end on a positive note.