Quick Comebacks for Dreaded Holiday Question: Why Are You Still Single?

by admin ~ December 16, 2008

With the holidays just a few weeks away and many families preparing for celebrations and festivities, singles across the country are gearing up for the dreaded question: “Why are you still single?”

To prepare yourself for the ever-dreaded inquiry, SingleEdition has put together a list of top 20 responses for when someone pops “the question” over turkey and eggnog. The full list is pasted below and is also featured here at SheKnows.com.

Twenty Quick Comebacks From SingleEdition.com
1. What? And spoil my great sex life?
2. Why aren’t you dating/divorced yet?
3. It gives my Mother/Father something to live for.
4. I’m not willing to give up on love just yet.
5. Just lucky, I guess.
6. I already have enough laundry to do, thank you.
7. Is this a proposal?
8. Because I think it would take all the spontaneity out of dating.
9. I’m waiting for you to get divorced so I can marry your wife/husband.
10. It didn’t seem worth a blood test.
11. The mail order bride/groom hasn’t arrived from Russia yet.
12. “I’m not done boozing and whoring”
13. Because having both a husband and a child would be redundant.
14. I’d have to forfeit my billion dollar trust fund.
15. I’m waiting for your son/daughter to turn 18.
16. Because your [wife/husband] won’t leave you
17. Why settle for just one.
18. “Because I haven’t found a partner who can make me as happy as I make myself.”
19. So I don’t have to cheat on my left hand.
20. My prince charming made a wrong turn