haha, talk about embarrassing

[RedSHIFT]

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So one of my professors's writing me a letter of recommendation introduced me to one of his fellow supervisors. As I reached out to shake his hand, I said, Hi Mark (my name is Mark). I meant to say, "Hi, I'm Mark." Regardless, I said excuse me and we started chatting away. I guess better here than on interviews. Normally I'm a pretty smooth talker; it seems that even Derek Jeter boots a routine ground ball.

 

[armybound]

I got in front of my class yesterday to introduce myself (to people I have already had classes with) and said "Hi, I'm armybound, you guys already know most of me."

of course meaning to say "most of you guys already know me"

my professor was like "whoa, what parts of you do they know?"

 

[jr doctor in sd]

I got in front of my class yesterday to introduce myself (to people I have already had classes with) and said "Hi, I'm armybound, you guys already know most of me."

of course meaning to say "most of you guys already know me"

my professor was like "whoa, what parts of you do they know?"

thats when you know you're on this too much haha

 

[ADeadLois]

So one of my professors’s writing me a letter of recommendation introduced me to one of his fellow supervisors. As I reached out to shake his hand, I said, Hi Mark (my name is Mark). I meant to say, "Hi, I'm Mark." Regardless, I said excuse me and we started chatting away. I guess better here than on interviews. Normally I'm a pretty smooth talker; it seems that even Derek Jeter boots a routine ground ball.

I do this with disturbing regularity. More often, I'll respond to someone saying "Hi" with "fine, how are you?"

 

[armybound]

I do this with disturbing regularity. More often, I'll respond to someone saying "Hi" with "fine, how are you?"

yeah, that happens a lot. I'm sure people understand. at least I hope they do.

 

[jr doctor in sd]

I do this with disturbing regularity. More often, I'll respond to someone saying "Hi" with "fine, how are you?"

hahaha! i ALWAYS hear this from people and wonder what's wrong with them. It probably just means you're ready to talk about the important part of why you are meeting and just shrugging off the "hi"s

 

[armybound]

hahaha! i ALWAYS hear this from people and wonder what's wrong with them. It probably just means you're ready to talk about the important part of why you are meeting and just shrugging off the "hi"s

people get nervous. this is why a lot of people have a hard time remembering names of people they just met, they're focused less on listening and more on what they're going to say or being nervous or whatever

 

[jr doctor in sd]

people get nervous. this is why a lot of people have a hard time remembering names of people they just met, they're focused less on listening and more on what they're going to say or being nervous or whatever

Yeah i cant remember anyone's name even if i heard it 2-3 times in a row i still wont know it.

 

[Phoenix.]

Some years ago I had recently gotten an internship working for a federal judge, and he took me to introduce me to some of his very prestigious Ninth Circuit colleagues. Rather than introducing me by my correct first name, he introduced me by a very silly word that RHYMED with my name! Let's just say, it's the equivalent of saying "This is Sapphire." (That was not the exact word). I blushed like mad, smiled, and shook their hands. Later, I asked one of the other clerks how that happened, and he said that the judge has a hard time remembering all of the interns names, so whenever the new interns start, they give him a list of words that rhyme with the name, so that he can better remember the actual name. Urgh! He continued to call me that until someone eventually corrected him.

 

[pakbabydoll]

I do this with disturbing regularity. More often, I'll respond to someone saying "Hi" with "fine, how are you?"

lol I do that at the hospital all the time. It gets so boring every one you pass in the hallway says hi how are you. so I just skip to how are you part.

 

[adamMD]

So one of my professors’s writing me a letter of recommendation introduced me to one of his fellow supervisors. As I reached out to shake his hand, I said, Hi Mark (my name is Mark). I meant to say, "Hi, I'm Mark." Regardless, I said excuse me and we started chatting away. I guess better here than on interviews. Normally I'm a pretty smooth talker; it seems that even Derek Jeter boots a routine ground ball.

I was taking a tour on my first day of my hospital job and did the same thing to a doctor. What do you really say at that point? I felt like I destroyed all possible respect. What's worse is that someone else immediately started talking and I couldn't correct myself. The tour then moved on and I know that doctor was thinking "what an idiot!" The next time I see him I plan to just call him Adam again. I'll just say I call everyone that. That'll smooth things over...

 

[RedSHIFT]

I was taking a tour on my first day of my hospital job and did the same thing to a doctor. What do you really say at that point? I felt like I destroyed all possible respect. What's worse is that someone else immediately started talking and I couldn't correct myself. The tour then moved on and I know that doctor was thinking "what an idiot!" The next time I see him I plan to just call him Adam again. I'll just say I call everyone that. That'll smooth things over...

A. Don't be too hard on yourself bro! 🙂
B. It's all good, it seems like verbal blunders make for good bar stories later in life.

 

[mhord]

Recognize you are a social idiot and immediately learn to roll with it! Haha-just kidding...I am pretty laid back and apparently my personality works, but I can say some truly stupid things. I belted out the line "POOOTTTAAATTOOOO" from despicable me during my first interview at VCOM-Carolinas-without missing a beat, I made sure the interviewer chimed in and sang it along with me. We ended up debating whether or not the last song from Despicable Me II was a boys to men song or not, for about five minutes. I got accepted...as I did at every other school I interviewed at. That's not any cool thing on my part, just proof you can put yourself in precarious positions and benefit from them 🙂

 

[deleted407021]

Recognize you are a social idiot and immediately learn to roll with it! Haha-just kidding...I am pretty laid back and apparently my personality works, but I can say some truly stupid things. I belted out the line "POOOTTTAAATTOOOO" from despicable me during my first interview at VCOM-Carolinas-without missing a beat, I made sure the interviewer chimed in and sang it along with me. We ended up debating whether or not the last song from Despicable Me II was a boys to men song or not, for about five minutes. I got accepted...as I did at every other school I interviewed at. That's not any cool thing on my part, just proof you can put yourself in precarious positions and benefit from them 🙂

Ancient thread, mate.

 

[Pacna]

I love how the awkwardness of the thread matches with the awkwardness of the necro post. Just yelling "potato" at people who have been gone for 7 years. Nbd.

 

[Ashley1989]

Recognize you are a social idiot and immediately learn to roll with it! Haha-just kidding...I am pretty laid back and apparently my personality works, but I can say some truly stupid things. I belted out the line "POOOTTTAAATTOOOO" from despicable me during my first interview at VCOM-Carolinas-without missing a beat, I made sure the interviewer chimed in and sang it along with me. We ended up debating whether or not the last song from Despicable Me II was a boys to men song or not, for about five minutes. I got accepted...as I did at every other school I interviewed at. That's not any cool thing on my part, just proof you can put yourself in precarious positions and benefit from them 🙂

Serious question... Do you have Tourette's?

 

[mhord]

Nope-just enjoy making people laugh 🙂

I'm not exactly sure how we go onto the subject of Despicable Me...I asked him something about his experiences in medical school and judging by the pictures of his family and how old his wedding ring looked, I assumed there was probably some things to learn and good advice from someone who had additional responsibilities during medical school. The conversation turned to his youngest child-something about Despicable Me-and somehow I felt the need to sing. It's my style...love it, hate it, it works for me 🙂

 

[TheWeeIceMan]

I know this was necro'd, but I actually just did something like this an hour ago.

"Thanks. Come back soon!"

Me: "You too."

I do that with embarrassing frequency.

 

[mhord]

I love how the awkwardness of the thread matches with the awkwardness of the necro post. Just yelling "potato" at people who have been gone for 7 years. Nbd.

Whoops...extremely old, how did I get here? Oh well, still fun to talk about it.

 

[Ashley1989]

Nope-just enjoy making people laugh 🙂

I'm not exactly sure how we go onto the subject of Despicable Me...I asked him something about his experiences in medical school and judging by the pictures of his family and how old his wedding ring looked, I assumed there was probably some things to learn and good advice from someone who had additional responsibilities during medical school. The conversation turned to his youngest child-something about Despicable Me-and somehow I felt the need to sing. It's my style...love it, hate it, it works for me 🙂

Ohhhhhhh okay I see what you're saying. From what you wrote it sounded like you randomly shouted it out in the interview and then had to make the best of the situation. My bad haha

 

[terp720]

Recognize you are a social idiot and immediately learn to roll with it! Haha-just kidding...I am pretty laid back and apparently my personality works, but I can say some truly stupid things. I belted out the line "POOOTTTAAATTOOOO" from despicable me during my first interview at VCOM-Carolinas-without missing a beat, I made sure the interviewer chimed in and sang it along with me. We ended up debating whether or not the last song from Despicable Me II was a boys to men song or not, for about five minutes. I got accepted...as I did at every other school I interviewed at. That's not any cool thing on my part, just proof you can put yourself in precarious positions and benefit from them 🙂

solid bump to talk about minions.
I hope you were on the correct side of this argument..

 

[mhord]

Ahhh...saw it under similar threads and didn't even notice. I love this forum, but I am certainly not comfortable with it. It's extremely user friendly, but like I said, roll with it.

 

[mhord]

solid bump to talk about minions.
I hope you were on the correct side of this argument..

Haha-actually I'm still not certain. I thought it was boyz to men (I somewhat recall them from my high school days) but he thought it was an older music group from the 80's that I have never heard of. I got accepted-hell, I got accepted into every school I interviewed at-I'm nothing special, I'm just easy to talk to 🙂

 

[mhord]

All For One-"I Swear"...originally performed by the tymes. Dammit, I was wrong on both accounts, lol.

 

[mhord]

Ohhhhhhh okay I see what you're saying. From what you wrote it sounded like you randomly shouted it out in the interview and then had to make the best of the situation. My bad haha

No problem-much better speaker than forum communicator (as can be noted by my attempt to speak to someone nearly a decade ago).