I think the question would have been better with “favorite” replaced with “most memorable” because I do have a most memorable pothole I hit.

Potato potahto. The point of any interview question is to get to know the candidate. Your interviewer won’t know what the perfect framing of any given question is for you personally. They just want you to tell them about yourself - in this case the prompt is to tell a story about an experience debugging.

If you’re the candidate, practice reframing any question you get asked into the variant of the question that brings you the most alive. Your interviewer, and your career, will thank you.

When I was still driving to/from work every day I had every bump and pot hole mappend up in my brain. Here I need to be more to the middle line, there I go over on the left side and directly over to the right side as far as possible. And so on. Yes, it was a horrible road :-)