The 1 useless information to ask

Imagine you want to know something, this something happens to all guys in Singapore. You go around asking.

You asked A, A gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked B, B gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked C, C gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked D, D gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked E, E gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked F, F gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked G, G gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked H, H gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked I, I gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked J, J gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked K, K gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked L, L gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked M, M gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked N, N gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked A, A gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked O, O gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked P, P gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked Q, Q gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked R, R gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked S, S gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked T, T gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked U, U gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked V, V gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked W, W gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked X, X gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked Y, Y gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked A, A gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked Z, Z gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked AA, AA gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked AB, AB gave you his 'unique' answer.
You asked AC, AC gave you his 'unique' answer.
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You asked ZZZ, ZZZ gave you his 'unique' answer.

Now, what was A's answer again? If you noticed, you asked A three times. (scroll up)

I don't see why people go around asking for enlistment dates. You ask, make a comparison with your date, have a 5 minute chat about it, and everything's gone. And gone as in really it doesn't even affect your any bit of 2 years in the army. NO. Typical Singaporeans.

Not trying to say that this question shouldn't be ask at all, but, if you are someone that haven't been talking to me for months/years/decades (I wanted to go into centuries, but guess I am not that old.), there really don't exist the need to ask. So what if you find someone with the same enlistment date as you? If you haven't been talking to him/her (that was a joke), I guess you 2 wouldn't be close in camp too.

So, if you want to ask, remember it. If you want to forget and ask again, you better don't ask at all.

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