<p>I always say I am a mother of 4 and an empty nester ,married to a finance guy for 25 years .What is your introductory spiel ? Kids or career first ?</p>
<p>When I introduce myself to people, I guess I just talk about myself and I may mention how I know the person or event or organization that brought us together. I never mention my husband or kids unless it comes up naturally in further conversation.</p>
<p>Usually “Hi, I’m Steve. Nice to meet you”.</p>
<p>Hi. I’m Ellemenope. Do you play tennis?</p>
<p>“I’m sure I should remember your name…”</p>
<p>I start with a list of my standardized test scores. I find it’s a good icebreaker.</p>
<p>No, bovertine, start with the list of family members by what college they attend or attended!</p>
<p>“I’m sure I should remember your name…”
This is me. :o
I have face blindness & some people I just can’t remember.
Other people I remember, but don’t know where from.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m woody. A) Lovely weather we’re having, B) She’s a marvelous hostess or C) What a lovely bride.
Never A) Obama is right about that insurance/contraceptive thing or B) Obama is wrong about that insurance/contraceptive thing </p>
<p>Frankly, most people you meet could not care less about you, your kids or your husband’s job. They really want to talk about themselves. For example, yesterday H and I had brunch with a co-worker of his and her husband. The husband monologued for about 25 minutes talking about well, actually, I don’t know what the hell he was talking about…back office, risk management, etc. I’m a nurse and he just assumed that I was in finance. Actually, he probably didn’t care what I was, he just wanted to talk.
So my advice, smile and nod, smile and nod.</p>
<p>Seems like I’m always saying, “I’m ______'s Mom”. :)</p>
<p>I have to admit that I’ve never been comfortable being called “Mrs. Abasket” - the Mrs. always has sounded like MY mom even though I’ve been married 30 years! Now that at least 2 of my kids are college aged I encourage their friends who come around to just call me by my first name. Some will, some are too conditioned to the “Mrs.”. But I rarely introduce myself as “Mrs.” - just first and last name.</p>
<p>I stutter through something while I’m frantically trying to remember their name. I have name blindness…I can remember faces from 30 years ago, but I can’t remember a name from 30 minutes or 30 days ago…I hate it, but I’ve never come up with anything that helps me too much.</p>
<p>“Hi, I’m musica, nice to meet you. Is that your real hair?”
But seriously, I’ve always felt that an informational tag line is a little awkward.</p>
<p>Woody, you cracked me up. I think even moderately good listeners should be on an endangered species list. In fact, if the OP doesn’t mind a little sidetracking of the thread, I’d be interested to know how often any of us meets one.</p>
<p>Woody is right . I guess it depends on where I am .I usually say my name and how do they know the person/people at the event we are attending .</p>
<p>hi, my name is _____. Nice to meet you! Firm handshake.
never, how many children i have or if I’m married. TMI</p>
<p>I never say the kids first . It always seems to come up a minute later ,like if I am seated at a table of people I don’t know .</p>
<p>Bond. James Bond.</p>
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<p>I agree. Whenever my kids say they are shy and never know what to say to people, I always tell them that. I tell them to ask them open ended questions about themselves (or in the case of adults, their kids as well) because people tend to love that subject. :)</p>
<p>“Hi. I’m MOWC. How many miles a week do you run?” “Oh. Well maybe you should start!”</p>
<p>“Name? Austin “Danger” Powers.”</p>
<p>Or</p>
<p>“Allow myself to introduce … Myself.”</p>