Never Have I Ever Questions

The kind nobody plans and everybody remembers.

1. Never have I ever walked into an automatic door that turned out not to be automatic.
2. Never have I ever got my head stuck in the neck of a jumper and needed help.
3. Never have I ever offered a high five that nobody returned.
4. Never have I ever clapped in the wrong place during a performance and heard it echo.
5. Never have I ever rolled my ankle on a perfectly flat pavement.
6. Never have I ever slipped over right next to a wet floor sign.
7. Never have I ever tried to look cool and fallen over straight away.
8. Never have I ever searched for a pen that was tucked behind my ear.
9. Never have I ever laughed so hard that no sound came out.
10. Never have I ever apologised to a mannequin, a lamp post or a coat stand.
11. Never have I ever pressed the lift button again and again as if that would help.
12. Never have I ever got my hand stuck in a jar and had to ask for help.
13. Never have I ever bitten my tongue and carried on talking as if nothing had happened.
14. Never have I ever stepped in a puddle that turned out to be far deeper than a puddle.
15. Never have I ever sat on someone else’s coat and only noticed when they said something.
16. Never have I ever practised a speech in the mirror and then forgotten all of it on the day.

Kitchen disasters, restaurant moments and one or two confessions about the last biscuit.

1. Never have I ever made a whole dinner out of snacks.
2. Never have I ever waved a tea towel at a smoke alarm and hoped the neighbours had not noticed.
3. Never have I ever put salt in something that needed sugar.
4. Never have I ever served up food that had briefly been on the floor.
5. Never have I ever followed a recipe to the letter and still made something inedible.
6. Never have I ever taken a big bite of something that was not what I thought it was.
7. Never have I ever eaten cold pizza for breakfast on purpose.
8. Never have I ever put something in the microwave that should never have gone in a microwave.
9. Never have I ever pretended to love a dish because somebody had cooked it for me.
10. Never have I ever made a cup of tea and forgotten it existed until it was cold.
11. Never have I ever secretly eaten the last piece of something and blamed someone else.
12. Never have I ever ordered something purely because I liked the sound of its name.
13. Never have I ever baked something that came out as hard as a brick.
14. Never have I ever put tomato sauce on something a chef would weep over.
15. Never have I ever tried a food only because I was dared to.

Stations, airports and wrong turns. Good for anyone who has ever left the house.

1. Never have I ever ridden the wrong train or bus a long way before noticing.
2. Never have I ever arrived at the airport at completely the wrong time.
3. Never have I ever spoken confident nonsense in a language I did not know.
4. Never have I ever followed my phone’s map straight to the wrong place.
5. Never have I ever fallen asleep on public transport and missed my stop.
6. Never have I ever sat in a reserved seat and pretended not to notice.
7. Never have I ever packed for a trip and forgotten something as basic as socks or a toothbrush.
8. Never have I ever tucked into something abroad without any idea what it was.
9. Never have I ever bought a souvenir I regretted before I got home.
10. Never have I ever waved off a train and then realised I was meant to be on it.
11. Never have I ever slept on the floor of an airport or a station.
12. Never have I ever taken more than a hundred photos of the same view.
13. Never have I ever missed a train, bus or flight by less than a minute.
14. Never have I ever tried my key card on the wrong hotel door.
15. Never have I ever walked so far on holiday that I needed a holiday from it.

Lessons, lectures and last-minute panics.

1. Never have I ever handed in homework I wrote on the way to school.
2. Never have I ever answered a question in class with total confidence and been completely wrong.
3. Never have I ever put my hand up and forgotten what I was going to say.
4. Never have I ever pretended to have read the book for a whole lesson.
5. Never have I ever woken up in a lesson with the pattern of my sleeve on my face.
6. Never have I ever asked a question that was answered thirty seconds earlier.
7. Never have I ever turned up for a test on the wrong day.
8. Never have I ever spelled my own name wrong on an exam paper.
9. Never have I ever finished an assignment ten minutes before the deadline.
10. Never have I ever called a lecturer by the name of a different lecturer.
11. Never have I ever been sent out of a room for laughing.
12. Never have I ever become best friends with someone because of a seating plan.
13. Never have I ever hidden at the back so that I would not be picked.
14. Never have I ever pulled an all-nighter to finish something.
15. Never have I ever been given a certificate for something I never knew I was good at.

Meetings, inboxes and video calls. Nothing here needs a particular job.

1. Never have I ever pretended to be on a call to avoid a conversation.
2. Never have I ever hit reply all when I meant to reply to one person.
3. Never have I ever nodded through a whole meeting without understanding a word.
4. Never have I ever talked for a full minute on a call with my microphone on mute.
5. Never have I ever put my name on something in a shared fridge and watched it vanish anyway.
6. Never have I ever said goodbye at the end of a call and then sat there while nobody left.
7. Never have I ever complained about a meeting in a chat that included the person who called it.
8. Never have I ever laughed along at a joke in a meeting that I did not get.
9. Never have I ever worn a smart top and pyjama bottoms on camera.
10. Never have I ever looked engaged on a call while doing something else entirely.
11. Never have I ever walked to the wrong printer, twice.
12. Never have I ever introduced myself to someone I had already met three times.
13. Never have I ever stayed at my desk looking busy so I would not be the first to leave.
14. Never have I ever shared the wrong window during a screen share.
15. Never have I ever signed off a very formal email with “love”.
16. Never have I ever spent longer writing an out-of-office message than doing the work before it.

Group chats, screens and small digital regrets.

1. Never have I ever liked a photo from years ago while scrolling through someone’s profile.
2. Never have I ever sent a message meant for one friend to a completely different chat.
3. Never have I ever called my own phone from another phone to find it.
4. Never have I ever typed a message, deleted it and typed it again ten times.
5. Never have I ever watched three videos on how to fix something and then not fixed it.
6. Never have I ever set ten alarms and slept through all of them.
7. Never have I ever muted a group chat within an hour of joining it.
8. Never have I ever sent a voice note and then listened back to it in horror.
9. Never have I ever let a message go unanswered for so long that replying felt awkward.
10. Never have I ever taken a selfie and deleted it straight away.
11. Never have I ever started looking up one thing and ended up reading about something completely different.
12. Never have I ever stayed up until it got light because I needed one more episode.
13. Never have I ever reset the same password three times in one day.
14. Never have I ever replied “haha” to something that was not funny.
15. Never have I ever pocket-dialled someone and only found out when they rang back.
16. Never have I ever sent a thumbs-up when I should have written a proper reply.

Dens, dinners and rules that were made to be tested.

1. Never have I ever hidden vegetables in a napkin, a pocket or under the table.
2. Never have I ever taken the blame for something someone else did.
3. Never have I ever built a den out of cushions and refused to come out.
4. Never have I ever had an imaginary friend.
5. Never have I ever tried to dig a hole to the other side of the world.
6. Never have I ever been forgotten in a game of hide-and-seek.
7. Never have I ever made something out of a cardboard box and refused to let anyone throw it away.
8. Never have I ever drawn on a wall or a table with a pen.
9. Never have I ever learned every word of a song without knowing what it meant.
10. Never have I ever tried to stay awake all night at a sleepover and lost first.
11. Never have I ever pressed a button I was told not to, just to see what happened.
12. Never have I ever lost a toy so completely that I still think about it.
13. Never have I ever got stuck up a tree, a climbing frame or a wall.
14. Never have I ever been too excited about a school trip to sleep the night before.
15. Never have I ever invented a secret handshake and made everyone learn it.

Plans, presents and things you quietly agreed to.

1. Never have I ever kept a secret so big I thought I would burst.
2. Never have I ever given someone a present I secretly wanted for myself.
3. Never have I ever passed on a gift I had been given to someone else.
4. Never have I ever wrapped a present so badly that it gave itself away.
5. Never have I ever forgotten someone’s name and avoided using it all evening.
6. Never have I ever gone along with a plan I quietly dreaded.
7. Never have I ever hidden from a knock at the door because I did not want company.
8. Never have I ever helped plan a trip that never actually happened.
9. Never have I ever fallen out with a friend over something tiny.
10. Never have I ever laughed so hard at a family meal that I had to leave the table.
11. Never have I ever been mistaken for someone else and gone along with it.
12. Never have I ever chuckled at a friend’s bad luck before checking they were okay.
13. Never have I ever given the same gift to the same person twice.
14. Never have I ever been told the same story three times and pretended it was new.

No theme, no pattern, and the hardest ones to guess.

1. Never have I ever named a houseplant or a kettle.
2. Never have I ever talked to an animal as if it might answer.
3. Never have I ever kept a broken thing because I might fix it one day.
4. Never have I ever been stuck in a lift.
5. Never have I ever held a snake or a tarantula.
6. Never have I ever been on the radio or in the local news.
7. Never have I ever spoken to a stranger for an hour and never learned their name.
8. Never have I ever walked out of a film early.
9. Never have I ever seen something in the sky that I still cannot explain.
10. Never have I ever had a nickname I never chose and could not shake.
11. Never have I ever stayed up to watch the sunrise.
12. Never have I ever won something in a raffle.
13. Never have I ever carried something absurdly large on public transport.
14. Never have I ever bought a plant and killed it within a week.
15. Never have I ever cried at a film about a talking animal.
16. Never have I ever received applause for something I did not plan.

Gentle and personal without being awkward. These work as an opener on a video call, or with people who have just met.

1. Never have I ever learned an instrument and given up after a month.
2. Never have I ever moved to a different town, city or country.
3. Never have I ever met someone famous and had nothing to say.
4. Never have I ever shared a birthday with someone I knew.
5. Never have I ever read a whole book in a single day.
6. Never have I ever taught myself a skill from a tutorial video.
7. Never have I ever performed in a play, a choir or a talent show.
8. Never have I ever spoken in front of a crowd of a hundred people.
9. Never have I ever had a pet with a ridiculous name.
10. Never have I ever read the last page of a book first.
11. Never have I ever camped in the rain.
12. Never have I ever been to a concert on my own.
13. Never have I ever changed my mind about a food I swore I hated.
14. Never have I ever won a medal, a trophy or a rosette.
15. Never have I ever learned to say hello in more than three languages.

Muddy, wet and slightly embarrassing.

1. Never have I ever signed up for a run, a swim or a class and never gone.
2. Never have I ever got lost on a walk that was supposed to be short.
3. Never have I ever been chased by a goose, a cow or a swan.
4. Never have I ever scored a goal or a point in front of a crowd.
5. Never have I ever fallen off a scooter, skateboard or bike while showing off.
6. Never have I ever been rained on so hard that I gave up and started enjoying it.
7. Never have I ever cheered for the wrong team by mistake.
8. Never have I ever swum in a lake or a river.
9. Never have I ever pretended to understand the rules of a sport while watching it.
10. Never have I ever pulled a muscle in the first ten minutes of trying something new.
11. Never have I ever put up a tent in the dark.
12. Never have I ever climbed a hill for the view and found only fog.
13. Never have I ever run away from a wasp with my arms in the air.
14. Never have I ever rolled down a hill on purpose.
15. Never have I ever been dragged to a sport I did not care about and ended up loving it.

The polite untruths everyone tells and few admit to.

1. Never have I ever said I was five minutes away when I had not left yet.
2. Never have I ever said I had a lovely time while counting the minutes.
3. Never have I ever told someone I loved a present I would never use.
4. Never have I ever laughed politely at a joke I had heard twelve times.
5. Never have I ever nodded along when people discussed a band I had never heard of.
6. Never have I ever said “let’s catch up soon” with no plan to do it.
7. Never have I ever said “no worries” while worrying quite a lot.
8. Never have I ever agreed with someone just to end the conversation.
9. Never have I ever ticked the box saying I had read the terms and conditions.
10. Never have I ever listened to directions, said “got it” and understood none of them.
11. Never have I ever apologised to someone who bumped into me.
12. Never have I ever avoided eye contact with a stranger in a lift on purpose.
13. Never have I ever accepted a compliment for something I did not do.
14. Never have I ever replied “you too” when it made no sense at all.