"Tell us something interesting" help required!

[CourageCamille]

We have a training day coming up at work and I've been told it'll involve one of those arse-clenching "Tell us something interesting about yourself" exercises. What's the most or least interesting thing you've ever heard about a colleague at one of these, and what could I say to make the trainer drop me like a hot brick and move on to the next victim?

Tell them that you once had an encounter with an alien.
That'll either stop them in their tracks or you can waste the entire morning describing your fictitious encounter.

Have you got a relative whose done something interesting? Like “my granny was the first woman to scale Everest” type of thing. I find making these questions slightly removed from me by putting the focus on another person (ie the relative) makes them less cringe.

Just make something up, I always do. Nobody will check

It has to be interesting, but believable.

If you speak a foreign language, especially an obscure one, make your reply in that language.

"My seat-neighbour on a long haul flight acted in adverts as a child.
Turns out he was the original Milky Bar Kid..."

Always liked that one!
Pretty sure the bloke was making it up, but he managed a convincing straight face, so who can say?

Just tell them that your uncle has webbed toes on one foot, or that your grandad won a prize for his brussel sprouts at the Chelsea flower show in 1966.

Mine is always 'im a 25 year old woman who has a cat C license which means I can drive up to a 32 ton rigid lorry'. That is interesting enough to get an 'oooh' but boring enough that they don't tend to ever follow it up with questions.

I have a rare psychiatric condition which is triggered by stupid questions.

Tell them you can tile a whole bathroom in half a day. Impressive, yet easy to move on from quickly as a conversation topic.

Alternatively, I'd be more inclined to make up something outrageous, like I met when I worked as a dominatrix in Soho in the 90s....

Just don't resort to claiming your secret hobby is painting wine crates to look like model buses.

nobody believed you, Boris

Tell them you're a real Vulcan warrior queen. Especially good if you can do the Spock greeting with your hand ( which I can't and it devastates me!)
Tell them you have 2 different sized feet, a size 4 and a size 7.
If you make it up make sure it's not 'find outable'
Like a previous poster who says she can drive lorries, impressive but only if you can! Imagine if on your first day they ask you to move a lorry out of the way in the car park!

You invented post-its

A relative told ya he played in a band - that was cool.

I'd be tempted to tell them that, interestingly enough, I'm a private person and don't share myself at work.
Or that you're a qualified shrink and that you've got your eye on the lot of them - including whatever prat came up with this idea.

I like the alien one.

Nothing to add. I am so uninteresting I can't even think of interesting things to make up,

I (a woman!) once beat a bloke in a pissing contest. a) true, b) people tend not to ask for any more details. Works like a charm!

Tell them you fart when you’re nervous then look shifty and say sorry to the floor whilst looking nervous

Try out a rubbish claim to fame.
Mine is that once, Neil Morrisey nearly spilled his pint down my back, but didn't.

Thanks for the replies! Most of the people who will be in my group have known each other 10 years or more so the ice breaking games will be a complete waste of time but our new manager is insisting on it. Maybe all of us will come out with the same interesting fact...