Small Talk

keep the conversation going! . 45
It turns out that when the family to whom my exhusband
and I sold the home in 1985 moved, they sold it
to Bob. Because of this chance encounter, and because I
took an interest in the fact that Bob was from Elizabeth,
Bob invited me to bring my family to see the house again.
I was delighted. We visited Bob at his house, and my kids
got the chance to experience a part of their own history
that would otherwise have been lost to them since they
were too young to remember having lived there.
Make the effort, and you’ll be richly rewarded. You
have a jumbo-sized list of icebreakers to get you started,
and What’s your sign? isn’t even on it!
BREAKING IN IS HARD TO DO
You’ve finally gotten up enough nerve to go speak to
that one person you’re most determined to meet. But he’s
busy chatting away with someone else. How do you break
in? While the polite thing to do would be to wait until
you get noticed, sometimes the conversation can be so engrossing
that you will never be granted an audience unless
you take the initiative. In the meantime, you feel a
little foolish just standing alone in the presence of these
two people who are fully occupied with each other.