What's an interesting fact about you?

[justthatgirl1]

We are always asked this at work training and I never really know what to say .. am I just a boring person .. what are your interesting facts ..

5 years ago, someone bought it off me about 2 years ago now, which was the dream! business is still going strong under the new leadership.

Totally agree. Utterly pointless waste of time

T the armed terrorist was over before it begun, i was walking down the side of BHS in Belfast when he came running around a corner he just shoved me out of the way with his gun hand, Seconds later 2 PSNI officers followed, one that i happened to know i was more worried about his dog as it was a flighty bugger and i didn't want to be bitten. I have a deep fear of Police dogs, sneaky silent killers.

Berkshire is lovely, i liked the old Reading in the days before the Oracle when the Butts centre was the place to be, i feel it is just a London Suburb these days. Still have a friend that lives in Mapledurham and often visit Pangbourne. Rural Berkshire is simply stunning.

Did you misread the title of the thread as ‘Tell me something that will impress people’? Or are you just feeling a bit grumpy today?

OP, although I know lots of people who have some really interesting things about them, I’m incredibly boring, so I entertain myself by telling whopping great big lies. Childish of me, but I can’t treat these exercises with any respect.

The ends of my optic nerves stick out into my eyeballs an unusual amount. My ophthalmologist called his colleague in to have a look last time.

No normal person treats those exercises with respect. I’ve noticed trends for dealing with them in different places I’ve worked — either people try to cap one another with the beigest possible fact eg ‘I once lived in Lincolnshire’, after which the next person said ‘Wow, I once drove through Weston-super-Mare’ or ‘I’m allergic to yoghurt’. Or totally daft and unverifiable things like ‘I was once stoned by a crowd in for busking so badly’ or ‘A police horse stole my sandwich’.

I have a few but you will only be interested in the peculiar ones.

My trousers fell down when I was standing waiting on the concourse of a major train station. All the way down - thump - until the belt buckle hit the floor.

I drove straight into a falling tree in the middle of a winter's night. The sort of thing that "never happens to you" until it does.

I gave the crucial piece of evidence that led to two men being jailed for 10 years each. I must have been only 11 or 12 at the time.

I got locked in when visiting Auschwitz (as a tourist, I hasten to add). It was closing and I didn't realise. A security guard found me and drove me back through to the exit.

Oh I've just thought of two unrelated things;

First one I had just broken into a house, the man came down stairs with a loaded shot gun pointing at me.

I've been in a mens prison.

My dog is allergic to all grains including rice and yeast. Not sure dogs count though lol

My great-grandfather was a Romany gypsy who travelled the country with his family trading horses.

Can we have more information?

Can we have more information?

Certainly can.

Breaking in.

A couple were splitting/divorcing but it was a nasty spiteful time.

One day we, a group of 4 or 5 people, went to the house with the wife. The husband had put the bolts of the door so the key didn't work. There was plenty of shouting and banging on the door, but he wouldn't open up.

We spotted the downstairs loo window open, a few tried to climb through but couldn't, causing lots of laughter as they got stuck. Then I tried and managed to get in, I did check with the wife before going in, she said it was fine.

As I was walking to the door, he came down the stairs with his loaded shot gun. Nothing much was said, I just walked to the door and unbolted it while he followed still pointing the gun at me.

Everyone came in, the wife saw what was happening then in a panicking trying to remain calm type of way got us out of the house. We didn't want to leave her in there with him but she said she would be fine.

We waited a safe distance away for a long time, she was trying to calm him down. Eventually the police came and took him and the gun away. He never returned to the house.

Going into prison.

I knew some people that go into prisons to do some music with a small group of in mates, helps to rehabilitate them.

They do morning and afternoon sessions Monday to Thursday, then Friday morning they do a performance for a select group of invited guests.

I got invited.

Wow. Interesting, genuinely interesting.

I was twice supposed to go into the Kresty Prison in St. Petersburg for a visit for my studies and both times the visits had to be cancelled last minute because of prison riots.
I did manage to visit a prison in Finland though, it was very strange, the prisoners had the keys to their cells, there was a small (as in 20 metres maybe) stretch of fence with a gate in it, but then no more fence so the rest was open so that one bit of fence seemed entirely pointless. No riots problems there!

I still have 5 of my baby teeth, I'm 30

sashh

Thanks, it was many years ago I had forgotten about it. Possibly not the best thing to answer in an interview.

Natsku

Whilst we, me and a guard, were walking to the room chatting I mentioned that the cell block looked like a hotel from the outside.
There was so much barb/sharp wire and massively tall fencing everywhere, it took ages to move round with all the metal gates and doors.

I will always hold a door open if someone is behind me, they had to gently tell not to do this. :)

The room was above the gym, we had to walk through to get to the stairs at the back next to the showers.
All the in mates stopped and watched us, even the ones in the showers ( that had no doors or curtains).

I met the performers, one decided it was his job to look after me, offering to get a drink etc.he seemed very nice
I wasn't sure what the etiquette was, do you ask why they are in there or not.
As it turned out he told me, he was in for life for murder.

I can still do the splits, all three ways! I'm well over 50. 😬

According to thé site forebears/Io there are less than 500 people on the planet with my name. I'm the only GB one.

My interesting fact is that I won a lot of money on the Chase, I won't be divulging the exact amount because that would be too identifying but I'll just say that it was one of the show's biggest payouts!

Who were you up against, was it just you or did some of the team make it back as well, was it close as in the chaser ran out of time?????

@jollygreenpea I wasn't on my own, we were up against The Beast and he was really p'd off that he'd lost and stomped off the minute filming finished.

Ohhh … still a favourite movie.

I can read upside down but the interesting bit is that I was into my 30s before I realised that not everyone can do it.
And no way would I have said that at an interview they would have hidden their comments about me. 🤣