Reply to If you lie about your hometown, why?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "If you lie about your hometown, why?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people really do this?

When people ask me where I'm from, usually in a casual setting, I tell them where I grew up. I don't go into an elaborate story about how I was born overseas and immigrated here as a preteen but then grew up in my hometown because I assume people are just making small talk and don't actually care. [/quote]

A very small subset of people do it, and I find it fascinating.  Sometimes I have had to ask a few times to figure out where someone actually grew up. It's strange [/quote]

And then these loons say you lie. They lack the inability to have any imagination that anyone did anything differently than they did.

I was born in a foreign country, moved to several others, bounced about, [b]in middle school moved to a small city in America.[/b] Moved for college and law school. My experience isn’t uncommon and I’m small talk, I say I’m from where I live. Who has this kind of time. [/quote]

That's where you say you're from.  You could preface it with, "we moved around a lot, but lived in ____ the longest".  But my guess is that the "small town" name doesnt sound as cool as wherever else you lie and claim to have grown up in. [/quote]

What are you talking about? I didn’t live there the longest. I lived there for six years. I have no issue with it, but why would that be where I’m from when I’m literally a person born in a different country? Why are you making these arbitrary rules about it and then getting annoyed when nobody else knows wtf they are? This is so stupid. [/quote]

And maybe no matter where we are from we don't want an intrusive, judgemental busy body in our business [/quote]
Some people are taking this topic way too seriously. Asking people where they're from in a place as transient as the DC area is a pretty harmless conversation starter. I don't really expect your entire life story. A sentence or two is more than enough, then we can turn to talking about our jobs, as every conversation in DC inevitably does.

Feel free to lie, if you think it makes you more interesting or whatever. But, unless you were born and raised in a scientific research base in Antarctica or something, most people will forget what you said within a half hour.   [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics