If I met someone in a social situation who gave me a card with her contact information, and I hadn't actually asked for her contact information whereupon she said, "well, my email address is kind of long but I happen to have a business card with it on," I would assume she was trying to sell me something!
But, this is me being jaded by too many desperate people trying very very hard to Network with all and sundry. And I'm not a parent. If it actually is a thing for parents to connect with other parents like that, that's different. But getting an unsolicited card from someone without that context would make me less likely to trust them or to want to see them again.
It sounds like you actually talked to the good-coat lady. (That is where I would get hung up!) Can you just hope that she and her children come back to that park when you're there, so that you can say, hey, our children get along and I have these free museum passes -- would you like to go there with us sometime?
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Date: 2011-11-08 03:42 pm (UTC)But, this is me being jaded by too many desperate people trying very very hard to Network with all and sundry. And I'm not a parent. If it actually is a thing for parents to connect with other parents like that, that's different. But getting an unsolicited card from someone without that context would make me less likely to trust them or to want to see them again.
It sounds like you actually talked to the good-coat lady. (That is where I would get hung up!) Can you just hope that she and her children come back to that park when you're there, so that you can say, hey, our children get along and I have these free museum passes -- would you like to go there with us sometime?