We all know what’s wrong with the world. What’s right with the world?
Sunrises.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• The increase of women in high political and international positions.
Gillian Shenfield, Sydney, Australia
• The right to healthcare, education, clean water, sufficient food, shelter and peace.
Avril Nicholas, Crafers, South Australia
• Love, music and labradors.
Michael Olin, Holt, UK
• What’s left of it.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
• The love that shines through the rubble of greed.
Malcolm Hewitt, Pitlochry, UK
• Quite a lot in fact but good news stories don’t make headlines.
Margaret Wilkes, Perth, Western Australia
• Precious little.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• The incredible scope and variety of its natural and cultural wonders, but with the Doomsday Clock at three minutes to midnight, the Pollyannaism seemingly reflected in the question is misplaced.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
• The love of family and friends. Sharing the days with feline and canine companions, Challenges and learning new skills. Birdsong, mountains, forests, the silence of snow. Keeping bees and gardening. Red wine and chocolate.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
Thank God for the third hand
Why did we evolve such fleshy lips?
“All the better to kiss you with, my dear.”
Pat Phillips, Adelaide, South Australia
• It must be for the sheer joy of puckering.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US
• Ask someone who loves you to demonstrate.
Donna Samoyloff, Toronto, Canada
• A prehensile handy third hand with side-pouches! And sticky-moist for keeping a host of tiny screws, nails and pins for honey-do jobs. Better than shaky butterfingers.
R M Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US
• Moistly for fun.
David Tucker, Halle, Germany
Let’s not skirt disaster
Why do most people stand still on escalators?
If you are not in a hurry, it’s so much pleasanter to let the escalator do the work. And if you are, somebody in front is usually standing on the wrong side, or carrying vast amounts of luggage.
Joan Dawson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• To get from one floor of a building to another.
Simon Armistead, London, UK
• Sitting still on them leads to trousers or skirts getting caught in the mechanism and inadvertent nudity. Best to stand.
Stuart Williams, Kampala, Uganda
• Inertia.
Terence Rowell, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
• How can I politely tell the two so and so’s obstructing my way to move?
André Carrel, Terrace, British Columbia, Canada
Any answers?
What trivial behaviour irritates you the most?
Gerry Cartmel, Bridgetown, Western Australia
What is luck? Who has it, and who doesn’t?
Donna Samoyloff, Toronto, Canada
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