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When it comes to parties, I'm usually the hostess. I LOVE to throw a good party. I like planning the menu, choosing the wine and the music, arranging the flowers and cooking the food.
I even like the quite "clean up" time at the end of the evening.
When I attend a party, I often throw myself into hostess-mode. I'll offer my help in the kitchen if the host(ess) needs it. I'll introduce friends to other friends. I'll open wine bottles and refill glasses if I notice that the host is falling behind. Baaad, I know, but poor entertaining skills kind of irk me.
I'm a first-born, yet a true introvert by nature, but if no one else will take command, I seemlessly fall into that "leadership" role.
Depends on the party. If it's filled with people I know, then I wade right in.
If it's a party where I don't know many, I will typically sit back at first and observe. Then I make a game of it.
Here's a foolproof party tactic if you don't know anybody. Walk up and ask these basic questions:
1) Hi, what's your name?
2) I don't know many people here. What's your connection with [Host's name]?
3) Then ask a question or two about their lives. Inevitably it leads to a conversation.
Not that question-and-answer is a particularly civilized form of conversation, but it's a good way to get one started. This person will then volunteer information about himself or herself. Ask a couple of more questions about them and actually listen. You'll be amazed at how interesting most people are. What's more, if you spend more time talking about them and less talking about yourself, they'll think you're the most interesting conversationalist in the world.
I'm somewhere in between as it would depend how well I know the people and who is it I'm hanging out with. At the end of the day, I'm hammered as hell but magically still have control over everything so that's like saying ''Yes I'm drunk but not really''.
I don't try to get to know anyone. I'm very stand-offish, which tends to rub people the wrong way. People say their first impression of me is that I was mean or had an attitude problem. I'll socialize with the folks I came with or the folks at the party, I know. That's it. If folks try to get to know me, I'm open to that, and will socialize (but I tend to keep it light). However, I definitely am not the type that will go around and try to talk to everyone.
My usual "MO" when I enter a party or am out with friends is this... I scour the room, check out everyone, get a feel for the vibe and then go to work as the life of the party LOL I'm very social, alcohol just makes it even more amusing and even without, I can be pretty fun to be around or so I'm told.
No, I don't go out much since I don't drink or dance. *shrug*
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Originally Posted by CArizona
sit on the sidelines and talk to a few people that you know the best?....I don't go to many parties. Most of the time I just hang-out with people I already know or people I seem to have something in common with and sit on the sidelines. I take everything "in" and enjoy watching all of the interaction around me. How about you?
Me too. I usually have fun that way, though. It's not like I'm sitting apart from everyone scowling at them. And if someone introduces me to someone or I notice someone I think will be cool I'll start a conversation with them, but that's very rare.
What's the point of even going if you are just going to sit there by yourself or only talk to the few people you know?
Friend(s) make me.
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