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fandomhigh2014-04-22 12:23 pm
sith_happened) wrote in fandomhigh2014-04-22 12:23 pm
How to Make Friends and Influence People [Tuesday, April 22, 2014]
If you thought you were getting out of Anakin Kriffing Skywalker's class without an examination, you were sadly, sadly mistaken. "There are four essay questions," he said, passing out the papers, "and then one practical examination question. Please don't hurt yourself too badly. I don't want to have to explain it to your parents, and the paperwork for this sort of thing is completely ridiculous."
He glanced up when he was finished passing everything out. "You have been an adequate group of students when you bother to listen. You will probably not die horribly."
...and thank you, Anakin.
He glanced up when he was finished passing everything out. "You have been an adequate group of students when you bother to listen. You will probably not die horribly."
...and thank you, Anakin.
Question 1
1) Get a glass of something to drink, knowing that if you don't talk to many people, you might end up intoxicated and saying something stupid;
2) Get some food, knowing that it's hard to talk with your mouth full;
3) Get food and drink, knowing you will then not have a hand free to shake with people;
4) Stand around with nothing, looking like a potential creepy person.
Explain your choice.
Re: Question 1
I try not to do anything that will end with me being intoxicated, and it's difficult to socialize with a full mouth. I don't know of any rule that says I need either in order to talk to people, though. That is the entire purpose of this cocktail party, is it not? Perhaps I'll take a glass for appearances, but I doubt I'll drink from it much.
Re: Question 1
Unless it's spinach puffs, he scrawled as an addition to the answer.
Re: Question 1
I'll just take really small sips.
Re: Question 1
I get a soda so the worst that can happen is a sugar high.
Re: Question 1
Of course it's hard to talk with one's mouth full, but it wouldn't be polite to eat in an uncivilized manner at a party anyway, would it? And if someone were impatient enough to start a conversation with me when they could plainly see I had food in my mouth then they perfectly well ought (this was underlined twice for emphasis) to wait until I'm in a fit state to speak to them again, and they certainly wouldn't have made a nice first impression that way.
Re: Question 1
I'm not going to look like a creepy person if I'm not carrying something -- I've already got my hands pretty full. I WILL look like a complete tool trying to eat anything off of a plate, unless I've got a table to set it on. Not that I'm not going to get refreshments, because I will, but I'm going to find a place to sit down when I do and so not be able to mingle effectively.
Re: Question 1