Only,if the person who put that question happened to be a extremely extroverted, talkative gort,which is highly likely,he would not let it go at that.
He would come up with all sorts of follow up questions to pester one. Better to play dumb and deaf.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody'd think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they'd leave me alone . . . I'd cook all my own food..