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<\/a>Love this "Genius Table"; when I was in first grade, I sat at the "smart table," so-named by the class, not the teacher! All photos by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n
First of all, I have to admit that my entire life I’ve rarely gone anyplace alone. (When I was little, and my mother needed me to go to the corner grocery store, I even had to call for my friend, Carol, a few doors down, to accompany me, so no one on the way would think I had no friends!!!)\u00a0In recent years, the main reason is that I want my pals to share my advantages, but my old, and still applicable, reason is that I think I’d just plain feel uncomfortable at an event alone.\u00a0\u00a0I don’t want to hope that someone talks to me because that would mean that I’d kind-of be hoping that they’ll ignore the person they came with!\u00a0\u00a0I hate intruding on others.<\/p>\n
Plus, I always feel so bad for lone event-attendees that I wind-up being the one taking care of them and ruining my own time. Attendees should just always come with their own friend and leave the other guests alone, I think. Going alone cries, \u201cPlease, someone talk to me!\u201d<\/p>\n
Conversely, when I take a friend with me<\/em>, I don’t like them<\/em> to start talking to other people–I’m trying to spend time with a friend, not network. [Note: for the few of you who are really into correct grammar, such as I, I know that I used the words \u201cthey\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d in these last two paragraphs, when the correct words are \u201che or she,\u201d but I just wanted to make my point and not be confusing to most. Even though I don’t go along with this, linguistics says that as long as you can be understood…]<\/p>\n Bag Lady is run by one of the sweetest girls ever, Laura Filipowicz. She’s a little dynamo who’s so nice and pleasant; everyone seems to love her. I guess that’s why she attracts a nice crowd of females, some of whom I’ve actually worked with before and was happy to run into again.<\/p>\n<\/a>But when I got invited to a Bag Lady Promotions event, which was for the express purpose <\/em>of networking, I told myself that if I wake up in time, (it was in the morning,) I’d go.\u00a0\u00a0And I’m glad I did.\u00a0\u00a0These ladies were not your typical \u201clet’s network\u201d kind of gals.\u00a0\u00a0They were all pretty nice and not phony!\u00a0\u00a0So just a couple of words about it:<\/p>\n