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It is not cool - read very, very impolite - to ask certain questions, no matter how well intentioned. Among them: When will you get married? Are you dating anyone? Are you planning on having a baby? How was your colonoscopy? Guess which one I've been asked twice in less than a week? Once on the playground at school, with parrot-like 3 and 4 year olds around, not to mention highly attentive 5 year olds. *sigh*

(Which doesn't even begin to address the whole issue of professionalism - would you ask your doctor/lawyer/accountant a personal question while said professional was at his or her place of employ practicing his or her profession?)