How to crash a party October 5, 2006
Posted by Niels in : Personal , trackback“Niels, don’t you use your newfound social skills for anything other than flirting with girls?”
“Well, sometimes I crash Cornell alumni networking gatherings.”
A friend of mine pointed me toward a Cornell alumni networking event yesterday. I really wanted to attend and meet some people in the publishing world, but unfortunately the event was already closed by the time I heard about it. Nothing left to do but crash it.
Now everyone knows that the right way to crash an event is to walk right in. Next time, I’ll do that. I’ll wave at the door, pretend I know someone, then walk right in and join a conversation like we’re old friends (I can do that now!).
Instead, I tried to play the “I must have been left off the list by accident” card and got totally called on it. But I was friendly and kept the desk girl laughing. As soon as I saw someone leaving, I walked right up, got her laughing in the first second, and talked her into giving me her name tag. This was right in front of desk girl, of course, who just stood there laughing. As I walked in with my borrowed name tag, she waved me over and gave me a blank one to write my name on. “You’re pretty persistent,” she said. “Have a nice time.”
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Try saying you are press, or PR. Everyone knows that PR people get comped to *everything*.