Guaranteed Methods for Remembering Names at Social Events
Fun with rhyme! Example: Mark. Okay, “Mark” rhymes with “Clark.” So now all you have to do is remember the name Clark.
Fun with rhyme! Example: Mark. Okay, “Mark” rhymes with “Clark.” So now all you have to do is remember the name Clark.
Reality: The bar door is a push not a pull, and I make quite a scene trying to open it.
I am here to keep the small talk alive because everyone else is so locked in that they forget how to socialize.
Like all bars with inscrutable locations, it’s a speakeasy. A “secret” bar. But it’s a secret the way it’s “a secret” your aunt got a facelift in 2015.
I offered to shapeshift so that I look exactly like Kevin or even just wear a baseball cap if it would be helpful.
I understand that this neighborhood has changed in recent years, and to some, my frontage looks “ironically shambolic” or “intentionally distressed.”
Maybe he needs to hear it very badly for whatever marriage-related problems he’s going through. If I had to guess, of course.
Our bar trivia is not—and I can’t stress this enough—fun. Think: the SATs. Think: your driver’s exam—the one you had to study for.
Stakes are high, and friendships will be severed. But as Paul’s prominent bicep tattoo says, “All’s Fair in Love and Pub Trivia.”
Random people keep jostling you to get to the front of the amorphous blob you’ve been waiting in for 30 minutes.
A shot of rum stirred into a pint of Guinness? Last night I tossed and turned, cogitating on what type of person this drink might fit.
The iPhone knows it’s not “chill” to say this, but she prefers the pandemic life. She’s happier now!