Brithday Table Topics

Apparently my friend isn’t the only one who likes Birthday Pie. Original photo from: merrimentdesign

Suna’s birthday is this Saturday. So I’ve been thinking a lot about birthdays.

This is a list of Table Topics questions I used at today’s Toastmasters meeting. Rather than having volunteers choose a number, I just picked a topic for them, including (jokingly) asking the guy I know never watches movies, “What’s your favorite birthday movie?”

• Tell us about your favorite birthday memory.
• Tell us about your worst birthday experience.
• James Doohan who played Scotty on original Star Trek series, would’ve been 91 today. Tell us about your favorite Scotty moment.¹
• Do you keep your birthday secret from your coworkers? Why or why not?
• Describe the wonders of cake.²
• How do you usually celebrate your birthday?
• Adults typically fall and one of three categories:
  • They lie about their age.
  • They don’t worry about her age and may not even know what it is.
  • Or they are proud of their age.
  Into which camp do you fall, and why?

Notes

1. Substitute any celebrity birthday.
2. I half expected to get a dissertation about the band, Cake. Instead, I got a wonderful story about birthday pie.